Dive Details |
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Location |
Carden's Playground, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea, |
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Date |
01 September, 2003 |
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Time |
4:13pm - 5:01pm |
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Details |
Inside lagoon at Osprey Reef |
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Seas |
Flat |
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Visibility |
20 |
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Duration |
48 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
17.2 m |
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Average depth |
10.1 m |
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Water temperature |
24.8°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides |
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Low |
5:59am |
0.81m |
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High |
12:26pm |
1.94m |
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High |
6:17pm |
1.20m |
Species Seen |
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Species |
Common name |
Size
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Fish |
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Scorpaenidae |
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Pterois antennata
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Spotfin Lionfish |
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Chaetodontidae |
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Chaetodon citrinellus
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Citron Butterflyfish |
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Chaetodon ephippium
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Saddled Butterflyfish |
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Chaetodon flavirostris
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Dusky Butterflyfish |
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Chaetodon kleinii
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Klein's Butterflyfish |
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Chaetodon lineolatus
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Lined Butterflyfish |
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Chaetodon pelewensis
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Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish |
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Chaetodon speculum
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Oval-Spot Butterflyfish |
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Chaetodon ulietensis
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Double-saddle Butterflyfish |
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Chaetodon unimaculatus
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Teardrop Butterflyfish |
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Forcipiger longirostris |
Longnose Butterflyfish |
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Heniochus chrysostomus |
Pennant Bannerfish |
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Heniochus monoceros |
Masked Bannerfish |
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Heniochus varius |
Humphead Bannerfish |
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Pomacanthidae |
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Centropyge bicolor
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Bicolor Angel |
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Centropyge bispinosa
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Coral Beauty |
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Centropyge vrolikii
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Pearly-scaled Angel |
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Pygoplites diacanthus
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Regal Angelfish |
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Pomacentridae |
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Amphiprion melanopus
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Black Anemonefish |
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Cirrhitidae |
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Paracirrhites arcatus
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Arc-eye Hawkfish |
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Paracirrhites forsteri
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Blackside Hawkfish |
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Labridae |
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Anampses neoguinaicus
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Black-backed Wrasse |
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Gomphorus varius |
Bird Wrasse |
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Hemigymnus fasciatus |
Barred Thicklip |
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Hemigymnus melapterus
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Half-and-Half Wrasse |
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Labroides dimidiatus
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Cleaner Wrasse |
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Thalassoma janseni |
Jansen's Wrasse |
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Thalassoma lunare |
Moon Wrasse |
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Thalassoma lutescens
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Yellow Moon Wrasse |
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Acanthuridae |
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Zebrasoma scopas |
Brown Sailfin Tang |
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Zebrasoma veliferum |
Sailfin Tang |
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Zanclidae |
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Zanclus cornutus
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Moorish Idol |
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Tetraodontidae |
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Arothon nigropunctatus
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Blackspotted Puffer |
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Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon Coolpix 4500 |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6186 |
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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.
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Zoanthids at 16 m.
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Acropora sarmentosa at 15 m.
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Heliofungia actiniformis at 16 m.
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Zoanthids at 18 m.
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Ascidian, Atriolum robustum, at 17.5 m.
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Goniopora sp. at 17.5 m.
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Favites sp. at 16 m.
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Fungia sp. at 16 m.
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Zoanthids at 16 m.
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Acropora sp. at 16 m.
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Goniopora sp. at 12.5 m.
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Ascidians at 12.5 m.
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Lobophyllia pachysepta at 12 m.
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Favites sp. at 11.5
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Goniopora sp. at 12 m.
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Heliofungia actiniformis at 13 m.
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Acropora sp. at 12.5 m.
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Acropora sp. at 10.5 m.
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Lobophyllia sp. at 10 m.
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Acropora sp. at 10 m.
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Heliofungia actiniformis at 11 m.
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Goniopora sp. at 11.5 m.
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Turbinaria reniformis at 12.5 m.
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Acropora sp. at 10.5 m.
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Galaxea sp. at 10 m.
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Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus, in Entacmaea quadricolor at 8 m.
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Oyster at 7.5 m.
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Spotfin lionfish, Pterois antennata, at 10.5 m.
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Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus, at 7 m.
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Acropora sp. at 8.5 m.
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Acropora sp. at 9 m.
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Conus sp. at 7.5 m.
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Acropora sp. at 7 m.
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Tridacna sp. at 7 m.
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Blackspotted puffer, Arothron nigropuctatus, at 6 m.
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