Dive Details
Location
Date
27 July 2014
Time
7:43am - 8:44am
Details
A nice early morning dive to start the day at the baths on Silver Beach. We got in on the outside of the baths on the western end and waded out along the rocks until it was deep enough to swim. The vizibility was at least 10 metres and there was only a small amount of surge.
We followed the rocks until we reached the nets and then headed out across the sand in a roughly northerly direction. The sand was not bare at all and we encountered numerous seagrass beds and saw a number of stingarees, sea hares, swimming anemones, at least 2 tiny Port Jackson sharks and a blue swimmer crab.
After about 30 minutes we turned and headed back to the baths, hitting the net somewhere around the centre. We followed the net south to the end looking for seahorses but found none. Near the end of the net we found a section where the net was raised off the bottom, allowing us to swim under and into the baths. We were getting cold so we headed to beach and got out.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
10 metres
Duration
59 minutes
Maximum depth
3.6 m
Average depth
2.5 m
Water temperature
14.1°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
2:38am
0.40m
High
8:34am
1.36m
Low
2:10pm
0.52m
High
8:38pm
1.76m
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.
Tiny polychaete worm. 2.4 m.
Juvenile Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 2.7 m.
Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 2.9 m.
Sea hare, Aplysia sp. 3.1 m.
Blue swimmer crab. Portunus pelagicus. 3.3 m.
Blue swimmer crab. Portunus pelagicus. 3.2 m.
Stingaree. 2.9 m.
Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 2.7 m.