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Location |
Cape Kri, Dampier Strait, Indonesia |
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Date |
01 March, 2013 |
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Time |
10:37am - 11:39am |
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Details |
Dive 31 and final dive of the Raja Ampat trip in February 2013 on board the S/Y Indo Siren. This was our second visit to Cape Kri. This had all the makings of being an absolutely fantastic dive. Unfortunately, my mask fogged up. I managed to partially clean the left lens and I was able to use the viewfinder of my camera with my left eye but it was a real struggle. To make things worse there was a weird current running vertically up the reef slope interrupting my buoyancy. I was not having fun.
Despite the struggles, there were a lot of cool things to see. Sheree found a yellow H. bargibanti, an urchin clingfish, a robust ghost pipefish and a Pontoh's pygmy seahorse. |
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Buddy |
Sheree Papuni |
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Seas |
Strong current |
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Visibility |
20-30 metres |
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Duration |
62 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
21.1 m |
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Average depth |
14.5 m |
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Water temperature |
28.5°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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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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Polyclad flatworm. 21 m.
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Nudibranch, Phyllidia varicosa. 19.9 m.
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Sea slug, Sagaminopteron ornatum. 20.2 m.
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Nudibranch, Chromodoris geometrica. 15 m.
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Pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus bargibanti (yellow variant). 17.4 m. This is not a particularly good photo but I'm putting here because Sheree spotted it. I couldn't get a good shot because of my fogged mask.
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Urchin clingfish, Diademichthys lineatus. 15.4 m.
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Robust ghost pipefish, Solenostomus cyanopterus. 16.1 m.
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Nudibranch, Nembrotha milleri. 13.4 m.
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Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 14 m.
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Pontoh's pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus pontohi. 16.7 m.
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Nudibranch, Hypselodoris emma. 14.9 m.
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