Dive Details

Location

Carden's Playground, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea,

Date

01 September, 2003

Time

4:13pm - 5:01pm

Details

Inside lagoon at Osprey Reef

Seas

Flat

Visibility

20

Duration

48 minutes

Maximum depth

17.2 m

Average depth

10.1 m

Water temperature

24.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides

Low

5:59am

0.81m

High

12:26pm

1.94m

High

6:17pm

1.20m

Species Seen

Species

Common name

Size
(mm)

Number

Spotfin Lionfish

Citron Butterflyfish

Saddled Butterflyfish

Dusky Butterflyfish

Klein's Butterflyfish

Lined Butterflyfish

Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish

Oval-Spot Butterflyfish

Double-saddle Butterflyfish

Teardrop Butterflyfish

Forcipiger longirostris

Longnose Butterflyfish

Heniochus chrysostomus

Pennant Bannerfish

Heniochus monoceros

Masked Bannerfish

Heniochus varius

Humphead Bannerfish

Bicolor Angel

Coral Beauty

Pearly-scaled Angel

Regal Angelfish

Black Anemonefish

Arc-eye Hawkfish

Blackside Hawkfish

Black-backed Wrasse

Gomphorus varius

Bird Wrasse

Hemigymnus fasciatus

Barred Thicklip

Half-and-Half Wrasse

Cleaner Wrasse

Thalassoma janseni

Jansen's Wrasse

Thalassoma lunare

Moon Wrasse

Yellow Moon Wrasse

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Zebrasoma veliferum

Sailfin Tang

Moorish Idol

Blackspotted Puffer

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon Coolpix 4500

Housing

Ikelite 6186

Strobe

Ikelite SubStrobe DS50

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.

Zoanthids at 16 m.
 

Acropora sarmentosa at 15 m.
 

Heliofungia actiniformis at 16 m.
 

Zoanthids at 18 m.
 

Ascidian, Atriolum robustum, at 17.5 m.
 

Goniopora sp. at 17.5 m.
 

Favites sp. at 16 m.
 

Fungia sp. at 16 m.
 

Zoanthids at 16 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 16 m.
 

Goniopora sp. at 12.5 m.
 

Ascidians at 12.5 m.
 

Lobophyllia pachysepta at 12 m.
 

Favites sp. at 11.5
 

Goniopora sp. at 12 m.
 

Heliofungia actiniformis at 13 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 12.5 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 10.5 m.
 

Lobophyllia sp. at 10 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 10 m.
 

Heliofungia actiniformis at 11 m.
 

Goniopora sp. at 11.5 m.
 

Turbinaria reniformis at 12.5 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 10.5 m.
 

Galaxea sp. at 10 m.
 

Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus, in Entacmaea quadricolor at 8 m.
 

Oyster at 7.5 m.
 

Spotfin lionfish, Pterois antennata, at 10.5 m.
 

Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus, at 7 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 8.5 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 9 m.
 

Conus sp. at 7.5 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 7 m.
 

Tridacna sp. at 7 m.
 

Blackspotted puffer, Arothron nigropuctatus, at 6 m.