Dive Details
Location
Date
23 February, 2013
Time
2:46pm - 3:58pm
Details
The tenth dive of the Raja Ampat trip in February 2013 on board the S/Y Indo Siren and the first of two dives at Boo Windows. The Boo Windows dive site is around a couple of islands that have holes in the rock at the surface that look like windows.
We saw some cool things on this dive. Around halfway through the dive Sheree found a Denise's pygmy seahorse on a sea fan. She was thrilled and I managed to get some photographs of it. She wasn't prepared to rest on her laurels and went on to find a H. bargibanti 20 minutes later.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Choppy
Visibility
20+ metres
Duration
71 minutes
Maximum depth
22.3 m
Average depth
14.2 m
Water temperature
29.5°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.
Nudibranch, Phyllidiella pustulosa. 20.2 m.
Three-spot angelfish, Apolemichthys trimaculatus. 21.1 m.
Pomacanthus xanthometopon. -17.5 m.
Tiger cowrie, Cypraea tigris. 19.9 m.
Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator. 20.1 m.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 17.5 m.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 17.6 m.
Yellow-striped sweetlips, Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia. 18 m.
Lamarck's angelfish, Genicanthus lamarck. 18.4 m.
Denise's pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus denise. 18.1 m.
Denise's pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus denise. 18.1 m.
Denise's pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus denise. 18.1 m.
Pipefish, Corythoichthys sp. 14.1 m.
Pipefish, Corythoichthys. 14 m.
Peacock mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus. 15.7 m.
Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 12.3 m.
Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 12.3 m.
Pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus bargibanti. 10.3 m.
Bearded scorpionfish, Scorpaenopsis barbata. 5.6 m.
Spot-fin porcupinefish, Diodon hystrix. 4.1 m.