Dive at Batu Balong, Current City, Indonesia on 27/8/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

27 August, 2012

Time

6:52am - 7:52am

Details

The 21st dive on the Pa Siren trip and a return for our third at Current City.

This was a pretty simple dive where we swam anti-clockwise around a large pinnacle, getting shallower as we moved around. There was a lot of life at this site and it was a very easy dive.

Buddy

John Mckeon

Seas

Calm

Visibility

20 metres

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

26.8 m

Average depth

14.7 m

Water temperature

26.2°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

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.


Giant moray eel. Gymnothorax javanicus. 14.3 m.
 

Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 26.8 m.
 

Map puffer, Arothron mappa. 19.8 m.
 

Red lionfish, Pterois antennata. 23.3 m.
 

Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator. 17.5 m.
 

Hawksbill turtle, Erectmochelys imbricata. 13.9 m.
 

Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus. 14.4 m.
 

Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 18.7 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 19.1 m.
 

Sea star, Fromia monilis. 19.1 m.
 

Six-bar angelfish, Pomacanthus sexstriatus. 15.4 m.
 

Bearded scorpionfish, Scorpaenopsis barbata. 13.4 m.
 

Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 14 m.
 

Blotched porcupinefish, Diodon liturosus. 7 m.
 

Moray eel. 5.6 m.