Dive Details

Location

Date

Saturday 5 December 2015

Time

8:18am - 9:06am

Details

AJ and I swam down the anchor line. The visibility near the surface was only a metre or so but improved to 10 metres at the bottom. AJ secured the anchor and attached his line to the anchor so he could reel it out for us to follow back to the anchor.

We headed west along one of the gutters and followed it to the edge of the shelf. We then swam along the sand line for a while before turning and heading back to the anchor.

I left AJ, who was on his rebreather, at the anchor and ascended the anchor line doing my safety stop at 5 metres.

Buddy

AJ

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 to 10 metres

Duration

47 minutes

Maximum depth

23.7 m

Average depth

17.6 m

Water temperature

18.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

4:47am

1.33m

Low

10:45am

0.73m

High

4:42pm

1.31m

Low

11:05pm

0.53m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

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.

AJ attaching his line to the anchor. 17.5 m.
 

AJ. 17.6 m.
 

Sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 22.9 m.
 

Sea fan. 21.2 m.
 

Sea fan. 19.2 m.
 

Sea fan. 20.1 m.
 

Sea fan. 21.6 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 22.4 m.
 

Sea fan. 21.7 m.