Dive Details

Location

Logged dive number

1706

Date

Sunday 7 July 2019

Time

9:29am - 11:08am

Seas

Slight current and surge

Visibility

5 to 10 metres

Duration

99 minutes

Surface interval

22:20 (hh:mm)

Maximum depth

17.4 m

Average depth

12.0 m

Water temperature

15.8°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

6:04am

0.29m

High

12:12pm

1.46m

Low

5:52pm

0.56m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D500

Lens

Nikon AF-S Micro Nikkor 60mm f/2.8G ED

Housing

Ikelite 6812.5

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

Strobe(s)

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.


Common Sydney Octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.5m.
 

Male Pot-bellied Seahorses, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Greg" and "Garry"). 16.6m.
 

Male Pot-bellied Seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Greg"). 16.6m.
 

Male Pot-bellied Seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Garry"). 16.6m.
 

Girdled Pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 15.9m.
 

Girdled Pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 16.2m.
 

Girdled Pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 15.9m.
 

Girdled Pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 16.3m.
 

Girdled Pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 16.2m.
 

Girdled Pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 16.3m.
 

Red-fingered Anglerfish, Porophryne erythrodactylus. 16m.
 

Red-fingered Anglerfish, Porophryne erythrodactylus. 16.2m.
 

Red-fingered Anglerfish, Porophryne erythrodactylus. 16.1m.
 

Dwarf Lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 16.1m.
 

Bent Stick Pipefish, Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus. 14.7m.
 

Bent Stick Pipefish, Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus. 14.7m.
 

Spiny Gurnard, Lepidotrigla papilio. 13.7m.
 

Spiny Gurnard, Lepidotrigla papilio. 13.6m.
 

Eastern Red Scorpionfish, Scorpaena jacksoniensis. 13m.
 

Sea anemone, Anthothoe albocincta. 12.8m.
 

Male Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2019063002). 12.9m.
 

Male Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2019063003). 12.4m.
 

Pair of Sydney Pygmy Pipehorses, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2019070701, IL2019070601). 11.3 m.
 

Male Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2019070601). 11.3m.
 

Female Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2019070701). 11.4m.
 

Male Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2019070602). 9.1m.
 

Female Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2019063004). 9.4m.
 

Male Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2019063005). 9.3m.