Dive Details |
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Location |
Lighthouse Bommie, Ribbon Reef #10, GBR, |
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Date |
20 August, 2008 |
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Time |
12:54pm - 1:40pm |
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Buddy |
Tim Everest |
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Seas |
Choppy |
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Visibility |
30 |
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Duration |
46 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
23.2 m |
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Average depth |
15.1 m |
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Water temperature |
23.8°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 |
5:00am |
0.94m |
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High |
10:43am |
2.13m |
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Low |
4:45pm |
0.96m |
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High |
10:53pm |
2.42m |
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Notes |
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2 sea snakes, 14 lionfish, green turtle, longnose hawkfish, sweetlips with parasites, pipefish |
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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Diagonal-banded sweetlips, Plectorhinchus lineatus, with isopod parasites. 20.2 m.
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Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 23 m.
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Black-saddle toby, Canthigaster valentini. 23.1 m.
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Sea star. 22.7 m.
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Sleeping olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis. 21.8 m.
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Fan worm. 21.6 m.
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Fan worm. 21.7 m.
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Bubble coral, Plerogyra sinuosa. 20.2 m.
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Olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis. 21 m.
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Blue sea star, Linckia laevigata. 17 m.
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Blue sea star, Linckia laevigata. 16.4 m.
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Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 18.3 m.
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Barrier reef anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos. 17.3 m.
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Longnose hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus. 17 m.
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Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 16.1 m.
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Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 15.4 m.
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Juvenile lionfish, Pterois volitans. 15.2 m.
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Longnose hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus. 16.4 m.
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Green turtle, Chelonia mydas. 11.8 m.
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Variable thorny oyster, Spondylus varians. 13.8 m.
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Variable thorny oyster, Spondylus varians. 13.5 m.
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Corallimorph. 13.7 m.
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Tunicate, Polycarpa aurata (left) and collector sea urchin, Tripneustes gratilla. 12.2 m.
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Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 10.2 m.
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Juvenile lionfish, Pterois volitans. 10.2 m.
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Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 6.2 m.
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Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 5.9 m.
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