Dive Number: 46 05/06/2010 10.43 Cottage by the Sea
Wind: 15 knot NW
Tide: 0.56 low tide at the Heads
Conditions: A cold wintery day, with heavily overcast clouds promising rain. It rained during the dive. Visibility was pretty ordinary and a fair bit of surge.
Bottom Type: Rock legdes over sand base
Visibilty: 3-5m
Water Temp: 14c
Bottom Time: 63 minutes
Max Depth: 7.9m
Air usage: 100bar/1400psi
SAC: 11.3 litres/min
Details: It was a cold windy day, but the northerly aspects of the wind made cottage a goer. I decided to give my sigma lens a try due to its versatilty as a macro and wide angle setup, but i always seem to regret the decision. The lens just seems to have horrible colour, soft focus and generally not very inspiring to use. A couple of shots came out ok though.
Camera Details: Sigma17-70mm , single SS200 strobe.
Dive Report: It seemed to be a fairly quiet day fish-wise. BUt i think i was lacking inspiration with my sigma lens, so maybe wasn’t searching as hard as i could have. Yellow-striped Leatherjackets are always around:
I felt i was really close to this Dusky Morwong, but taking photos at the 70mm range of this lens means your shooting through a lot of water, and when vis is low, you get pretty grubby photos.
I had a bit of ear pain on this dive and i stuck to about the 4m mark for the later half of my dive. Dropping down to 6-7metres was causing pressure on my left ear..i put this down to a hangover from the night before. This cuttlefish was searching around the kelp on the upper reef and came to check me out. I couldn’t follow him as it decends though.
