Dive Details
Location
Date
20 August, 2008
Time
12:54pm - 1:40pm
Buddy
Tim Everest
Seas
Choppy
Visibility
30
Duration
46 minutes
Maximum depth
23.2 m
Average depth
15.1 m
Water temperature
23.8°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Leggatt Island, Queensland
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
5:00am
0.94m
High
10:43am
2.13m
Low
4:45pm
0.96m
High
10:53pm
2.42m
Notes
2 sea snakes, 14 lionfish, green turtle, longnose hawkfish, sweetlips with parasites, pipefish
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D300
Lens
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II +5 diopter
Housing
Ikelite 6812.3
Lens port
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50
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.
Diagonal-banded sweetlips, Plectorhinchus lineatus, with isopod parasites. 20.2 m.
Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 23 m.
Black-saddle toby, Canthigaster valentini. 23.1 m.
Sea star. 22.7 m.
Sleeping olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis. 21.8 m.
Fan worm. 21.6 m.
Fan worm. 21.7 m.
Bubble coral, Plerogyra sinuosa. 20.2 m.
Olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis. 21 m.
Blue sea star, Linckia laevigata. 17 m.
Blue sea star, Linckia laevigata. 16.4 m.
Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 18.3 m.
Barrier reef anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos. 17.3 m.
Longnose hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus. 17 m.
Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 16.1 m.
Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 15.4 m.
Juvenile lionfish, Pterois volitans. 15.2 m.
Longnose hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus. 16.4 m.
Green turtle, Chelonia mydas. 11.8 m.
Variable thorny oyster, Spondylus varians. 13.8 m.
Variable thorny oyster, Spondylus varians. 13.5 m.
Corallimorph. 13.7 m.
Tunicate, Polycarpa aurata (left) and collector sea urchin, Tripneustes gratilla. 12.2 m.
Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 10.2 m.
Juvenile lionfish, Pterois volitans. 10.2 m.
Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 6.2 m.
Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 5.9 m.