Dive Details

Location

Date

07 December, 2013

Time

12:34pm - 1:41pm

Details

My third dive of the day was at The Monument. Conditions were less than ideal but still good enough for a third dive.

I entered at the bay around the corner from the flagpoles and it was as my left arm hit the water that I discovered that I had a small tear in the wrist seal which must have happened when I took a tumble at The Steps. It was too late to go back and change so I pushed on with the dive.

The tide must have already been running out with a strong surface current. I thought I made a quick trip down to the sand line but ended up 30-40 metres towards The Steps. It was fortunate, because I had planned to swim that far underwater but this took only a minute or so.

I headed back towards The Monument and had a good look for "Little Sebastien", the tiny yellow angler we've been watching since August. I looked everywhere on its usual rock but could not find it. The last time we'd seen it was a month ago.

I swam on towards The Monument and had a look for the three orange form undescribed anglers, "Oliver", "Jean" and "Beverley". I was only able to find "Jean" although the conditions were not conducive for finding these anglers.

I progressed to the corner, looking for anglers ("Lesley", "Little George") and seahorses, but found none. I then went around the corner and along the bottom of the wall, hoping to find "Angus", the little orange angler. I did well, finding "Angus" along with a Okenia hallucigenia nudibranch. This time I swam up the wall to get a landmark so I could more easily find "Angus" again.

I continued along the top of the wall and started my safety stop as I headed into the beach, exiting in front of the flagpoles. Throughout the dive I could feel the water that got in at the wrist seal make its way up my arm, down my chest and down my legs into the socks of the drysuit. I sloshed my way back to the car park.

Seas

Rough

Visibility

2-3 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

14.0 m

Average depth

9.6 m

Water temperature

18.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

High

12:20pm

1.41m

Low

6:01am

0.42m

High

12:27pm

1.86m

Low

7:12pm

0.21m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

Photographs

Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to approximate the depth of the subject.

Undescribed angler ("Jean"). 11 m.
 

Undescribed angler ("Jean"). 11 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 11.8 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Angus"), with nudibranch, Okenia hallucigenia. 11.1 m.