Dive Details
Location
Coral Castles, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea,
Date
03 September, 2003
Time
4:08pm - 4:59pm
Details
Not only did I forget to attach my dive watch to the camera housing but I also forgot to replace the camera battery with a recharged one and the camera only lasted a short time. I still managed to get a few good photographs.
Buddy
Shane Dyson
Seas
Choppy
Visibility
15
Duration
51 minutes
Maximum depth
18.9 m
Site Map
Tides
High
1:57am
1.70m
Low
8:56am
0.90m
High
4:30pm
2.15m
High
11:11pm
1.26m
Species Seen
Species
Common name
Size
(mm)
Number
Fairy Basslet
Purple Anthias
Hawk Anthias
Royal Dottyback
Blue-head Tilefish
Large
1
Threadfin Butterflyfish
Triangular Butterflyfish
Bennett's Butterflyfish
Citron Butterflyfish
Saddled Butterflyfish
Klein's Butterflyfish
Lined Butterflyfish
Merten's Butterflyfish
Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish
Blue-dash Butterflyfish
Oval-Spot Butterflyfish
Chevroned Butterflyfish
Redfin Butterflyfish
Double-saddle Butterflyfish
Teardrop Butterflyfish
Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish
Pyramid Butterflyfish
Pennant Bannerfish
Masked Bannerfish
Humphead Bannerfish
Bicolor Angel
Coral Beauty
Regal Angelfish
Arc-eye Hawkfish
Blackside Hawkfish
Black-backed Wrasse
Bodianus mesothorax
Blackbelt Hogfish
Gomphorus varius
Bird Wrasse
Checkerboard Wrasse
Barred Thicklip
Half-and-Half Wrasse
Bicolour Cleaner Wrasse
Cleaner Wrasse
Breastspot Cleaner Wrasse
Pseudocheilinus hexataenia
Sixline Wrasee
Thalassoma janseni
Jansen's Wrasse
Yellow Moon Wrasse
Pencilled Surgeon
Lined Surgeon
Dusky Surgeon
Orangespine Unicornfish
Brown Sailfin Tang
Sailfin Tang
Moorish Idol
Clown Triggerfish
Paraluteres prionurus
Mimic Filefish
Blackspotted Puffer
Canthigaster valentini
Saddled 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.
Blue-head tilefish, Hoplolatilus starki.