Dive Details |
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Location |
Pinnacles, Mele Bay, Efate, Vanuatu |
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Date |
22 January, 2011 |
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Time |
9:16am - 10:16am |
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Details |
Headed down the mooring line and swam over to the large "Mushroom Coral" (actually a huge colony of Pavona clavus) swam around it and then on through various gutters. A group of us lost the dive guide but we still managed to find our way back to the mooring. |
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Buddy |
Ken Bradley |
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Seas |
Flat |
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Visibility |
10-15 metres |
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Duration |
60 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
16.4 m |
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Average depth |
10.3 m |
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Water temperature |
27.1°C |
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Site Map |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Port Vila |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
1:10am |
0.03m |
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High |
7:40am |
1.31m |
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Low |
1:30pm |
0.45m |
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High |
7:16pm |
1.33m |
Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D300 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6812.3 |
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Lens port |
Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41 |
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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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Nudibranch, Phyllidia ocellata. 7.1 m.
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Clown toby, Canthigaster valentini. 7.4 m.
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Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 7.7 m.
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Sea anemone, Stichodactyla mertensii. 6.9 m.
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Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii and sea anemone, Stichodactyla mertensii. 6.8 m.
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Close-up of pin-cushion sea star, Culcita novaeguineae. 5.6 m.
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Blenny in hole. 9.5 m.
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Sea anemone, Actineria sp. 10.9 m.
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Nudibranch, Phyllidiella sp. 11 m.
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Close-up of sea cucumber, Bohadschia argus. 13.1 m.
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Sea fan. 14.3 m.
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Sea star, Fromia nodosa. 16.1 m.
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Close-up of pin-cushion sea star, Culcita novaeguineae. 15.7 m.
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Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 15.1 m.
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Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 15.2 m.
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