Dive Details |
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Location |
North Horn, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea, |
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Date |
19 August, 2008 |
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Time |
12:27pm - 1:04pm |
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Details |
My aim on this dive was to try and find the weedy scorpionfish, Rhinopias aphanes, I saw here in 2003. I failed. I was, however, rewarded with a school of 20-30 scalloped hammerheads, Sphyrna lewini. I also saw a grey reef whaler, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, being cleaned. The shark swum vertically in the water and slowly sunk while it was cleaned by fish. Another shark was waiting to be cleaned. |
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Buddy |
Tim Everest |
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Seas |
Choppy |
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Visibility |
30 |
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Duration |
37 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
30.5 m |
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Average depth |
15.3 m |
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Water temperature |
24.9°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Leggatt Island, Queensland |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
4:29am |
0.92m |
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High |
10:01am |
2.19m |
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Low |
4:09pm |
0.73m |
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High |
10:27pm |
2.59m |
Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D300 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II +5 diopter |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6812.3 |
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Lens port |
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50 |
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Strobe |
2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS125 |
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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Purple firefish, Nemateleotris decora. 30.1 m.
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Purple firefish, Nemateleotris decora. 30.2 m.
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Sea star. 25.5 m.
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Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. 15 m.
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Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. 14.8 m.
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Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. 14.9 m.
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Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 16.7 m.
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Soft coral (Nephtheidae). 14.4 m.
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Soft coral. 6.1 m.
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Staghorn coral, Acropora sp. 5.1 m.
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Arc-eye hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus. 5.1 m.
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