Dive Details

Location

Date

24 February, 2013

Time

3:43pm - 5:00pm

Details

The 14th dive of the Raja Ampat trip in February 2013 on board the S/Y Indo Siren. This site was so named because it had tiers of different levels of reef much like a wedding cake.

Another interesting site with lots to see. We saw more pygmy seahorses and a couple of mantis shrimp on the move.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

20 metres

Duration

74 minutes

Maximum depth

23.3 m

Average depth

12.1 m

Water temperature

28.9°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.

Eye-patch butterflyfish, Chaetodon adiergastos. 8.4 m.
 

Sea star, Fromia milleporella. 14.2 m.
 

Pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus bargibanti. 19.3 m.
 

Denise's pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus denise. 18.3 m.
 

Regal angelfish, Pygoplites diacanthus. 11.1 m.
 

Banded coral shrimp, Stenopus hispidus. 10.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris coi. 7.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Flabellina exoptata. 8 m.
 

Blenny, Ecsenius stigmatura. 8.5 m.
 

Peacock mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus. 6.3 m.
 

Peacock mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus. 5.4 m.
 

Peacock mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus. 5.3 m.