Dive Details

Location

Date

25 August, 2012

Time

6:09pm - 7:06pm

Details

The 16th dive on the Pa Siren trip and the third dive on Rinca Island.

This was one incredible night dive. I saw so many odd and unusual organisms it was tremendous fun. There was a crab with a sand dollar on its back (although I didn't realise it was a sand dollar until I looked at the photos) and other crabs with upside-down jellyfish on their backs. There were many other crabs, a torpedo ray, a big pleurobranch, nudibranchs and a cuttlefish.

Buddy

John Mckeon, Sheree Papuni

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

57 minutes

Maximum depth

13.0 m

Average depth

6.9 m

Water temperature

23.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

Strobe

2 x 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.

Sun coral. 11.1 m.
 

Sea pen. 11.6 m.
 

Hermit crab. 11.9 m.
 

Spider crab. 11 m.
 

Zebra crab, Zebrida adamsii, in fire urchin. 11 m.
 

Zebra crab, Zebrida adamsii in fire urchin. 11.1 m.
 

Moray eel. 11.8 m.
 

Dorippid crab with sand dollar. 12.3 m.
 

Dorippid crab with sand dollar. 12.6 m.
 

Crab. 13 m.
 

Torpedo ray, Torpedo sp. 5.4 m.
 

Torpedo ray, Torpedo sp. 5.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 7.1 m.
 

Spider crab. 7.5 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus forskalii. 6.7 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus forskalii. 6.9 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish Dendrochirus brachypterus, with copepod parasite on its eye. 6.7 m.
 

Upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea, with host dorippid crab. 2.9 m.
 

Venus shrimp, Periclimenes venustus. 2.8 m.
 

Venus shrimp, Periclimenes venustus. 2.8 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia. 2.6 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia. 2.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris coi. 5 m.