Dive Details |
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Location |
Magic Mountain, Misool Islands, Indonesia |
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Date |
23 February, 2013 |
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Time |
7:43am - 8:56am |
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Details |
The eighth dive of the Raja Ampat trip in February 2013 on board the S/Y Indo Siren and our first of two dives at Magic Mountain.
As the name suggests, Magic Mountain is a sea mount, and quite a large one at that.
I was deemed an honorary "lady" for this dive and the next few when Sheree and I joined the ladies from Florida.
Kassandra was our guide and she didn't point out any macro subjects. It was still an interesting dive with 4 different species of anemonefish and quite a few white-tipped reef sharks at various points of the dive. As we hit the shallows there were 3 juvenile white-tipped reef sharks that swam under a large coral head and we watched them as the cruised around under that. |
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Buddy |
Sheree Papuni |
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Seas |
Choppy |
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Visibility |
20+ metres |
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Duration |
72 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
27.0 m |
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Average depth |
13.0 m |
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Water temperature |
29.3°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Video |
Video captured with GoPro HD Hero with BlurFix and URPro CY filter
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Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D7000 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6801.70 |
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Lens port |
Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41 |
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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.
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Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 21.5 m.
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Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 22.1 m.
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Day octopus, Octopus cyanea. 22.1 m.
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Nudibranch, Phyllidiopsis shireenae. 23.6 m.
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Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 25.3 m.
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Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 25.3 m.
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Red firefish, Nemateleotris magnifica. 17.7 m.
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Giant moray, Gymnothorax javanicus. 18.5 m.
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Nudibranch, Phyllidia elegans. 17.1 m.
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False clown anemonefish, Amphiprion ocellaris. 17 m.
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False clown anemonefish, Amphiprion ocellaris. 17.1 m.
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Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 15.6 m.
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Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 11.6 m.
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Juvenile white-tipped reef shark, Triaenodon obesus. 10.7 m.
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Spine-cheeked anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus. 8.9 m.
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Spine-cheeked anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus. 9.1 m.
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Spine-cheeked anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus. 9 m.
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Spine-cheeked anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus. 8.9 m.
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Black-backed hawkfish, Paracirrhites forsteri. 8.6 m.
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