Dive Details
Location
Date
20 August, 2006
Time
8:33am - 9:19am
Buddy
Colin Keene
Seas
Choppy
Visibility
30m
Duration
45 minutes
Maximum depth
22.1 m
Average depth
9.4 m
Water temperature
23.9°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Port Douglas
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
Species Seen
Species
Common name
Size
(mm)
Number
Fairy Basslet
Hawk Anthias
Royal Dottyback
Citron Butterflyfish
Klein's Butterflyfish
Lined Butterflyfish
Racoon Butterflyfish
Blue-dash Butterflyfish
Pennant Bannerfish
Bicolor Angel
Coral Beauty
Pearly-scaled Angel
Regal Angelfish
Blackside Hawkfish
Black-backed Wrasse
Gaimard's Wrasse
Gomphorus varius
Bird Wrasse
Yellow Wrasse
Checkerboard Wrasse
Bicolour Cleaner Wrasse
Cleaner Wrasse
Cetoscarus bicolor
Bicolor Parrotfish
Golden-headed Sleeper Goby
Orangespine Unicornfish
Brown Sailfin Tang
Foxface
Black Triggerfish
Blackspotted Puffer
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
Strobes
Ikelite SubStrobe DS-50
Ikelite SubStrobe DS-125
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.
Colin. 19.2 m.
Black triggerfish, Odonus niger. 21.3 m.
Sea cucumber, Thelenota anax. 20 m.
Juvenile golden-headed sleeper goby, Valenciennea strigata. 13.3 m.
Red seastar, Fromia indica. 12.4 m.
Acropora sp. colony. 11.5 m.
Orange basslet, Pseudanthias squamipinnis. 9.7 m.
Acropora sp. colony. 8.3 m.
Acropora sp. colony. 8.2 m.
Acropora sp. colony. 8.4 m.
Black-spotted puffer, Arothon nigropunctatus. 6 m.
Black-spotted puffer, Arothon nigropunctatus. 6 m.
Barrier Reef anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos. 7.1 m.
Acropora aculeus. 6.8 m.
Montipora sp. colony. 6.5 m,
Clam, Tridacna sp. 5.3 m.
Porites cylindrica with turtle weed, Chlorodesmis fastigiata. 4.2 m.
Hydnophora rigida with cyanobacteria. 4.2 m.
Acropora sp. colony. 4 m.
Acropora sp. colony. 3.8 m.
Acropora sp. colony. 3.9 m.
Montipora sp. colony with cyanobacteria. 3.6 m,
Juvenile clown wrasse, Coris gaimard. 3.1 m.
Acropora sp. colony, possibly A. intermedia. 2.9 m.
Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus, in bubble-tip anemone, Entacmaea quadricolor. 2.3 m.
Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus, in Porites cylindrica. 2.8 m.
Bluestripe seaperch, Lutjanus kasmira. 5.2 m.
Bluestripe seaperch, Lutjanus kasmira. 6.2 m.
Pocillopora verrucosa. 6 m.
Pocillopora verrucosa with soft coral, Lobophytum and asymbiotic coral, Tubastraea. 6 m.
Crinoid. 5.9 m.
Simon. 6.8 m.
Pennant bannerfish, Heniochus chrysostomus. 5.4 m.
Pennant bannerfish, Heniochus chrysostomus. 5.1 m.
Hawk anthias, Serranocirrhitus latus. 4 m.