Dive Details

Location

Date

24 October, 2011

Time

3:00pm - 3:57pm

Details

Dive with Sipadan-Kapalai Dive Resort led by George

This site is pretty much right in front of one of the resorts on Mabul Island. It was a sandy bottom with a few artificial structures. Despite the artificial environment there was a lot of life around, including 2 very large cuttlefish.

Buddy

Peter Waters

Seas

Flat

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

56 minutes

Maximum depth

14.7 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

29.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Pakalangan, Sabah MST

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

High

3:48am

1.90m

Low

10:00am

0.50m

High

4:12pm

2.00m

Low

10:26pm

0.40m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

Strobes

Ikelite SubStrobe DS125

Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

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.

Juvenile saddleback anemonefish, Amphiprion polymnus. 13.8 m.
 

Juvenile saddleback anemonefish, Amphiprion polymnus. 13.9 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 10.3 m.
 

Warty frogfish, Antennarius maculatus. 10.8 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 11 m.
 

Saddleback anemonefish, Amphiprion polymnus. 11.7 m.
 

Robust ghost pipefish, Solenostomus cyanopterus. 11.7 m.
 

Snake Eel. 9.3 m.
 

Fingered dragonet, Dactylopus dactylopus. 9.4 m.
 

Fingered dragonet, Dactylopus dactylopus. 9.4 m.