Dive Details

Location

Date

25 April, 2014

Time

2:42pm - 4:18pm

Details

This was the first time we'd dived at Fairlight and didn't really know what to expect. While there weren't as many interesting critters as we see at Kurnell or Bare Island, there were loads of fish and it was an enjoyable dive.

We swam out from the beach to the left and descended onto a wall. We turned to the right and followed the wall west. We made an excursion out onto the sand where we found a couple of small boats on the bottom. We headed back to the wall and along it the the navigation marker. Just past the navigation marker the visibility dropped significantly so we turned and swam back along the wall all the way to the other end.

We turned again and swam to out from approximately the middle of the beach for our safety stop. We fooled around on the safety stop and I discovered that I could blow bubble rings. It took a bit of trial and error but it was remarkably easy. I now have to teach Sheree how to do it.

After the safety stop we swam to the western end of the beach and got out.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

2-5 metres

Duration

92 minutes

Maximum depth

9.9 m

Average depth

6.6 m

Water temperature

21.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

High

4:44am

1.65m

Low

11:11am

0.38m

High

5:28pm

1.59m

Low

11:31pm

0.50m

Video

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.

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9.2 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.5 m.
 

Hinge-back shrimp, Rhynchocinetes serratus. 7.5 m.
 

Sydney cardinalfish, Apogon limenus. 7.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 5.5 m.
 

Feather duster worm. 5.4 m.
 

Yellow-back puller, Chromis nitida. 5.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Doriprismatica atromarginata. 7.8 m.
 

Sea star, Uniophora granifera. 7.9 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Doriprismatica atromarginata. 8.4 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 7.2 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 6.6 m.
 

Mosaic sea star macro, Plectaster decanus. 8.7 m.
 

Mosaic sea star macro, Plectaster decanus. 8.8 m.
 

Mosaic sea star macro, Plectaster decanus. 8.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 9.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Goniobranchus geometricus. 9.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Goniobranchus geometricus. 9.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 8.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 9.2 m.