Dive Details
Location
Date
26 December, 2013
Time
12:04pm - 1:18pm
Details
I entered at the bay around the corner from the flagpoles and swam down to the sponge garden. I had a quick look for the orange form undescribed anglers but found none of them.
I headed towards The Steps past the wall and had a look for "Little Sebastien" the yellow painted angler. It took me a little while to locate it as it was behind the rock it had been on the previous week.
After doing a quick sweep for seahorses, I headed back towards The Monument. I looked again for the orange form undescribed anglers but couldn't find any of the three usual ones. The visibility was not great and I'll blame that. I did find a displaying reaper cuttlefish.
I continued to the corner and then around the corner, looking for anglers and seahorses along the way but found none.
I followed the wall in front of the flagpoles along until I got to the sea tulips and went down to the bottom and found "Angus" the orange painted angler immediately. Its left eye was still dilated and the right eye normal.
I ascended the wall and had a leisurely swim along the top of the wall and back to the beach in front of the flagpoles where I exited.
Seas
Surgy
Visibility
3-5 metres
Duration
73 minutes
Maximum depth
13.1 m
Average depth
9.3 m
Water temperature
19.5°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
3:21am
1.35m
Low
9:19am
0.69m
High
3:16pm
1.33m
Low
9:43pm
0.49m
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.
Painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Little Sebastien"). 11.4 m.
Painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Little Sebastien") with my finger for scale. 11.4 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.8 m.
Painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Angus") 10.3 m.
Painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Angus") 10.4 m.