Dive Details
Location
Date
20 August, 2006
Time
12:32pm - 1:30pm
Details
Descended to the small bommie next to Lighthouse Bommie and then swam clockwise around Lighthouse Bommie getting shallower.
Buddy
Colin Keene
Seas
Choppy
Visibility
30
Duration
58 minutes
Maximum depth
20.8 m
Average depth
10.7 m
Water temperature
23.9°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Port Douglas, Queensland
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
1:52am
0.89m
High
7:21am
1.87m
Low
1:20pm
0.45m
High
8:00pm
2.73m
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D70
Lens
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF +4 diopter
Housing
Ikelite 6807.1
Lens port
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.55
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.
Euphyllia glabrescens (top left), Acropora sp, (centre right) and Stichodactyla sp. anemone with Amphiprion clarkii (centre) at Lighthouse Bommie. 14.8 m.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 15.1 m.
Blue sea star, Linckia laevigata. 14.9 m.
Titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens. 16.7 m.
Sea fan. 19.8 m.
Soft coral colony, Briareum, around Montipora sp. colony. 20.1 m.
Sea anemone, Heteractis magnifica, with pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 17.1 m.
Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 17.2 m.
Tubastraea sp. colony. 16.8 m.
Barrier Reef anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos. 16.2 m.
Goniopora sp. colony. 16 m.
Pipefish. 16.2 m.
Nephtheid soft coral. 15.7 m.
Goniopora sp. colony. 15.4 m.
Thorny oyster, Spondylus sp. 16.9 m.
Royal dottyback, Pseudochromis paccagnellae. 16.7 m.
Thorny oyster, Spondylus sp., surrounded by a Briareum sp. colony. 15.3 m.
Acropora aculeus colony. 15.2 m.
Sarcophyton sp. and Acropora aculeus colony. 15.1 m.
Nephtheid soft coral. 14.5 m.
Pearl coral, Physogyra lichtensteini. 14.6 m.
Red seastar, Fromia indica. 14.5 m.
Crinoid. 12.3 m.
Pocillopora damicornis colony. 12.1 m.
Red seastar, Fromia indica. 11.9 m.
Pearl-scaled angelfish, Centropyge vrolikii. 10.3 m.
Pearl-scaled angelfish, Centropyge vrolikii. 10.5 m.
Bicolour angelfish, Centropyge bicolor. 10 m.
Sea fan with Colin. 10.4 m.
Zebrasoma scopas. 10.2 m.
Nephtheid soft coral. 10 m.
Pearl coral, Physogyra lichtensteini. 9.1 m.
Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus. 9.3 m.
Coral cod, Cephalopholis miniata. 7.3 m.
Yellow crinoid. 6.1 m.
Sea fan. 7.5 m.
Tubastraea sp. colonies. 8 m.
Blackside Hawkfish, Paracirrhites forsteri. 8.1 m.
Pipefish. 8.4 m.
Acropora sarmentosa. 8.2 m.
Red seastar, Fromia indica. 8.3 m.
Pearl coral, Physogyra lichtensteini. 7.1 m.
Tubastraea sp. colony. 7 m.
Nephtheid soft coral. 5.7 m.
Thorny oyster, Spondylus sp., with spotted hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus. 6 m.
Sea anemone, probably Heteractis crispa, and black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 6 m.
Coral beauty, Centropyge bispinosa. 5.6 m.
Acropora sp. colony. 5.1 m.
Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 6 m.
Acropora sp. colony. 5.8 m.
Pacific pinstriped butterflyfish, Chaetodon lunulatus. 6 m.
Two Pacific pinstriped butterflyfish, Chaetodon lunulatus. 6.5 m.
Blue-dash butterflyfish, Chaetodon plebeius. 6.2 m.
Tubelip wrasse, Labrichthys unilineatus and sixline wrase, Pseudocheilinus hexataenia. 6 m.
Nephtheid soft coral. 5.8 m.
Lobophyllia sp. colony. 5.5 m.
Clam, Tridacna sp. 5.2 m.
Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 4.9 m.
Day octopus, Octopus cyanea. 5.5 m.
Day octopus, Octopus cyanea. 5 m.