Dive Details

Location

Chinaman's Reef, Agincourt Reef, GBR,

Date

05 September, 2003

Time

11:46am - 12:25pm

Details

This reef had been devastated by crown-of-thorns starfish some 7 years previous. There was a lot of recolonisation by a number of species of Acropora. Some colonies were quite large.

Buddy

Andrew Baird

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

15 m

Duration

39 minutes

Maximum depth

9.5 m

Average depth

6.1 m

Water temperature

24.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides

High

12:13am

1.05m

High

5:21am

1.73m

Low

11:25am

0.63m

High

6:21pm

2.62m

Species Seen

Species

Common name

Size
(mm)

Number

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Chaetodon bennetti

Bennett's Butterflyfish

Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish

Blue-dash Butterflyfish

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Bicolor Angel

Coral Beauty

Barrier Reef Anemonefish

Black Anemonefish

Cleaner Wrasse

Thalassoma lunare

Moon Wrasse

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Balistapus undulatus

Orange-lined Triggerfish

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.

Acropora anthocercis at 9 m.
 

Acropora anthocercis at 9 m showing fluorescence.
 

Sea fan, Isis sp., at 9.5 m.
 

Organ-pipe coral, Tubipora musica, at 9.5 m.
 

Acropora millepora at 7.5 m.
 

Acropora sarmentosa at 6 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 5 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 5 m.
 

Acropora millepora at 3 m.
 

Seriatopora hystrix at 6 m.
 

Giant clam, Tridacna sp, at 5 m.
 

Acropora millepora at 2.5 m.
 

Anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus, in bubble-tip anemone, Entacmaea quadricolor at 2 m.