Dive Details

Location

Date

14 December, 2013

Time

11:20am - 12:46pm

Details

Entered from the shelf along from the ramp and went to the sand line. Headed west along the sand line and up over the shelf. Continued west over and down the wall and then turned south following the base of the wall and making small excursions out onto the low sponge covered rocks.

Turned at 120 bar and headed north along the wall. Came right around the corner along the wall without realising it until I was back to the shelf. I went back down the ramp again to check out seahorse rock and the area we'd seen pygmy seahorses.

I then came back up the ramp, along the shelf, along the sand line and exited and the rock carved ramp.

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

85 minutes

Maximum depth

14.9 m

Average depth

10.4 m

Water temperature

20.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

12:27am

0.47m

High

7:00am

1.63m

Low

1:39pm

0.47m

High

7:27pm

1.28m

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.

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 11.9 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 13.9 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 12.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 10 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Jorunna sp. 12.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 6.7 m.