Dive Details

Location

Date

25 July 2014

Time

7:41pm - 8:54pm

Details

Night dive with Snorkel Safari, Beverly Hills, led by Nicci Johnson.

We entered at the pool amnd descended the wall. I spent a but of time out on the sand away from the wall looking for nudibranchs and pipefish. I managed to find a bent stick pipefish.

We headed back to the wall and followed it along towards the shallows, turned and came back along the wall. Near the exit I let my buddy go and spent some time in the shallows to the north of the exit looking for cephalopods but found none.

I exited at the pool.

Buddy

Alex

Seas

Calm

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

73 minutes

Maximum depth

16.0 m

Average depth

10.1 m

Water temperature

14.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

1:30am

0.46m

High

7:19am

1.30m

Low

12:53pm

0.55m

High

7:27pm

1.74m

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.

Snail. 14.5 m.
 

Fortescue, Centropogon australis. 14.4 m.
 

Bent stick pipefish, Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus. 14.1 m.
 

Crab. 13 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 8.6 m.
 

Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 12.4 m.
 

Pineappplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.6 m.
 

Pineappplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 13.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.8 m.
 

Flathead. 6.5 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 6.6 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 2.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 2.3 m.