Dive Details
Location
Date
22 January, 2011
Time
9:16am - 10:16am
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.
Buddy
Ken Bradley
Seas
Flat
Visibility
10-15 metres
Duration
60 minutes
Maximum depth
16.4 m
Average depth
10.3 m
Water temperature
27.1°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Port Vila
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
1:10am
0.03m
High
7:40am
1.31m
Low
1:30pm
0.45m
High
7:16pm
1.33m
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
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.
Nudibranch, Phyllidia ocellata. 7.1 m.
Clown toby, Canthigaster valentini. 7.4 m.
Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 7.7 m.
Sea anemone, Stichodactyla mertensii. 6.9 m.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii and sea anemone, Stichodactyla mertensii. 6.8 m.
Close-up of pin-cushion sea star, Culcita novaeguineae. 5.6 m.
Blenny in hole. 9.5 m.
Sea anemone, Actineria sp. 10.9 m.
Nudibranch, Phyllidiella sp. 11 m.
Close-up of sea cucumber, Bohadschia argus. 13.1 m.
Sea fan. 14.3 m.
Sea star, Fromia nodosa. 16.1 m.
Close-up of pin-cushion sea star, Culcita novaeguineae. 15.7 m.
Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 15.1 m.
Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 15.2 m.