Dive Details

Location

Date

01 March, 2014

Time

10:39am - 11:33am

Details

For our second dive of the day we were going to the gutter with the grey nurse sharks. This was a pretty simple dive. Jump in the water, swim to the gutter and swim with the sharks. They were not at all worried about us and would swim very close. Every now and then they'd slightly change direction but they pretty much kept doing their laps despite our presence.

On the safety stop I tried my hand at some selfies although I found out when I looked at the photos that someone was photobombing me.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

20-25 metres

Duration

54 minutes

Maximum depth

25.9 m

Average depth

16.4 m

Water temperature

15.0°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Yamba AEDT

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

Low

2:42am

0.15m

High

9:13am

1.77m

Low

3:33pm

0.11m

High

9:31pm

1.51m

Video

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro 12-24mm f/4 +4 dipoter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.51

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.


Ornate wobbegong, Orectolobus ornatus. 21.6 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 22.9 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.4 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. That is Sheree in the background. 22.9 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.7 m.
 

Grey nurse sharks, Carcharias taurus. 22.9 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.2 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.6 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.4 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.1 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 21.9 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.1 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 21.8 m.
 

Yellow tail scad, Trachurus novaezelandiae. 21.3 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 4.1 m.
 

Selfie with photobombing Sheree. 4.9 m.
 

Selfie. 4.7 m.
 

Selfie with photobombing Sheree. 6.8 m.
 

Selfie with photobombing Sheree. 9.3 m.
 

Sheree. 5.4 m.
 

Sheree. 6.3 m.
 

Peter. 5.6 m.