Dive Details

Location

Date

Saturday 18 October 2014

Time

8:10am - 9:17am

Details

With all the rough weather we'd had during the week and an outgoing tide, visibility was not going to be great. After entering at The Steps, I descended to the sand line and headed to The Monument against the outgoing tide. Visibility was probably around 5 metres at The Steps but gradually dropped as I got closer to The Monument and with the dropping tide. It was probably around 3 metres at The Monument.

After looking around The Monument for a while I turned and swam back with the tide to The Steps where I exited.

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

12.5 m

Average depth

9.3 m

Water temperature

16.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

5:21am

1.22m

Low

11:02am

0.69m

High

5:20pm

1.40m

Low

11:55pm

0.51m

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.

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 10.3 m.
 

Sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.6 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 11.1 m.
 

Juvenile crested horn shark, Heterodontus galeatus. 12.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Doriprismatica atromarginata. 5.6 m.