Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 1 February 2015

Time

7:36am - 9:05am

Details

The seas up and down the coast had been pretty rough for the last few days and Shiprock was one of the few places where a half decent dive would be possible (although I did hear that some people successully dived The Monument).

I pretty much followed Eddie for the whole dive. We jumped in at the pool and headed out and down the wall. The visibility was only around 3 metres. We then headed north for a while. I spotted a Plocamorpherus imperialis nudibranch and lost Eddie while I was photographing it. Fortunately, I caught up with him before he headed out onto the sand.

We swam across the sand for a bit and I spotted a painted stinkfish. I lost Eddie again but headed back to the wall and found him. I then stuck with him for the rest of the dive. We only made it as far as the piepapplefish but Eddie pointed out some cool stuff, including a flatworm, a banded coral shrimp and a orange reef-goby.

Despite the poor visibility it was a fun dive and we went for nearly 90 minutes.

Buddy

Eddie Ivers

Seas

Slight

Visibility

2-3 metres

Duration

88 minutes

Maximum depth

18.5 m

Average depth

12.6 m

Water temperature

21.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

1:01am

0.53m

High

7:34am

1.66m

Low

2:17pm

0.43m

High

8:09pm

1.29m

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.

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 14.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 15.7 m.
 

Gracilis wrasse, Suezichthys devisi. 18.1 m.
 

Painted stinkfish, Eocallionymus papilio. 17.3 m.
 

Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 14.3 m.
 

Gracilis wrasse, Suezichthys devisi. 15.9 m.
 

Southern peacock sole, Pardachirus hedleyi. 15.7 m.
 

Flatworm. 15.7 m.
 

Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 13.6 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.9 m.
 

Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 13.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Doriprismatica atromarginata. 9.8 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 13.4 m.
 

Hinge-back shrimp, Rhynchocinetes serratus. 13.7 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9.9 m.
 

Orange reef-goby, Priolepis nuchifasciatus. 9.4 m.
 

Orange reef-goby, Priolepis nuchifasciatus. 9.4 m.