Dive Details

Location

Date

Thursday 16 February 2017

Time

10:37am - 12:18pm

Details

We jumped in at The Steps, descended, and turned left towards The Monument. Visibility was around 5 metres, there was not much surge and we had a gentle current behind us. There was an obvious thermocline with the temperature fluctuating between 19 and 21°C.

We swam just above the sand line over the kelp which allowed me to spot two weedy seadragons as well as check out for organisms on top of the reef. I was able to locate the grey red-fingered angler that Roney spotted yesterday. Turns out it is the same angler I first spotted on the twilight dive on 14 January and then found again on 5 February. It has moved around quite a bit.

Not far from the angler, Roney spotted a ghostpipefish. It looks like a robust ghostpipefish but it has fluffy appendages on its snout, so perhaps it is a rough-snout. Either way, it was a beautiful fish and a cool find.

We continued on to Block Rock. I found the black angler that had been missing the last few days and Roney found the yellow angler that Dama found

Buddy

Mike Scotland, Roney & Dama Rodrigues

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

100 minutes

Maximum depth

12.8 m

Average depth

10.6 m

Water temperature

18.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

12:44am

1.45m

Low

6:46am

0.57m

High

12:49pm

1.45m

Low

7:03pm

0.52m