Dive Details

Location

Date

24 January, 2011

Time

8:47am - 9:42am

Details

This was the worst dive of the trip. The visibility was poor and there was a lot of silt on the bottom which was stirred up easily. The dive guide took us over too long a distance in too short a time. We had to swim like mad to keep up and I almost had no time for photographs. Ken and I were left behind if I did stop for a photograph or two and we spent half the dive tracking the silt trails of the rest of the group. It was also the coldest of all the dives.

Buddy

Ken Bradley

Seas

Flat

Visibility

2-5 metres

Duration

54 minutes

Maximum depth

22.7 m

Average depth

11.8 m

Water temperature

24.6°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

2:35am

0.18m

High

9:04am

1.33m

Low

3:18pm

0.41m

High

9:05pm

1.17m

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.

Stony coral, Turbinaria sp. 11.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllidiella sp. 17.2 m.
 

Stony coral, Euphyllia cristata. 20 m.
 

Soft coral. 18.8 m.
 

Hydrocoral, Distichopora sp. 14.3 m.
 

Magenta dottyback, Pictichromis porphyrea. 15.1 m.
 

Blue sea star, Linckia laevigata. 7.5 m.
 

Tentacles of sea anemone, Heteractis magnifica. 4.8 m.
 

Tentacles of sea anemone, Heteractis magnifica. 4.6 m.