Dive Number: 137 17/02/11 18.56 , Geelong Promenade
Wind: 15knot S’s
Tide: 2hrs before 0.20 low tide at Geelong.
Conditions: Overcast and dark condition, humid but stable conditions.
Visibilty: 2m
Water Temp: 22c
Bottom Time: 73minutes
Max Depth: 4.7m
Air usage: 80bar/1200psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Me Stupid. I just made a eyepiece extender for the housing out of an old point and shoot telephoto lens. I made up a temporary bracket to hold it onto the existing eyepiece out of some stainless steel and some screws. The whole point of this dive was to test out this eyepiece to see how water flooding it (and pressure) would affect it. Silly me just followed old habits, put on my dive gear and then clipped on my camera to the D-ring on my harness and walked to the entry point. I trugded across the seagrass beds and out under the promenade and then realised….my eyepiece extender aint there no more. Damn it! Lost before i even got to try it out. Anyway, vis was horrid but i tried to just get a few shots of the smaller fish that were around. I found a nother feral i hadn’t seen before, a Trident Goby or Japanese Goby- Tridentiger trigonocephalus. There were a few brevicardum ceratasomas around and also a pair of Polycera Hedgepethi”s. Found some poor dudes car keys, and 20 cents! (not enough to replace the eyepiece..so i left it for other treasure hunters ;) Here’s some crappy shots in crappy vis.
Camera Details: Canon 100mm , single SS200 strobes.
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