Dive Details

Location

Date

03 January, 2014

Time

8:42pm - 10:09pm

Details

Got in at the beach at the western end of the baths, outside the nets, and swam out along the groyne to where the nets start. On the corner saw a blue-lined octopus climbing along the rocks.

I went around the front of the nets ranging from 1 to 20 metres from the nets the the eastern end of the net. The visibility dropped as I got closer to the eastern end. Along the way I saw lots of prawns, 2 dumpling squid, 3 very large calamari squid and one small one, and a few crabs.

At the end of the nets, I turned and came back along the nets and out on the sand. I found a hammer octopus in a hole in the sand. It came out to play.

I continued back the north western corner of the baths and then back along the western groyne, exiting at the beach.

Buddy

Karolyn and Seb Landat

Seas

Slight

Visibility

2-3 metres

Duration

86 minutes

Maximum depth

2.8 m

Average depth

2.2 m

Water temperature

22.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

3:58am

0.29m

High

10:29am

2.04m

Low

5:07pm

0.08m

High

11:08pm

1.50m

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.

Prawn, Melicertus sp. 1.6 m.
 

Prawn, Melicertus sp. 1.8 m.
 

Blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus. 2 m.
 

Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 1.6 m.
 

Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 2.5 m.
 

Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 2.5 m.
 

Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 2.4 m.
 

Eye of a fan-bellied leatherjacket, Monacanthus chinensis. 1.6 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 2.2 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis, in a hole in the sand. 2.7 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 2.6 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 2.6 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis, going into a hole in the sand. 2.7 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis, in a hole in the sand. 2.7 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 2.5 m.