Dive at Pixies Pinnacle (Ribbon Reef #9) on 16/09/2002 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Pixies Pinnacle (Ribbon Reef #9)

Date

16 September, 2002

Time

7:43am - 8:30am

Seas

Slight

Visibility

20m

Duration

46 minutes

Maximum depth

23.3 m

Average depth

10.7 m

Water temperature

24.6°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides

High

12:46am

0.87m

High

6:11am

1.83m

High

12:08pm

0.61m

High

6:51pm

2.65m

Species Seen

 

Species

Common name

Size
(mm)

Number

  Fish

 

Scorpaenidae

 

Common Lionfish

Large

1

 

Serranidae

 

Pseudanthias huchtii

Threadfin Anthias

Medium

Many

 

Fairy Basslet

Medium

Many

 

Purple Anthias

Medium

Many

 

Pseudochromidae

 

Royal Dottyback

Medium

Many

 

Chaetodontidae

 

Citron Butterflyfish

Medium

Few

 

Saddled Butterflyfish

Large

Few

 

Klein's Butterflyfish

Medium

Many

 

Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish

Medium

Many

 

Double-saddle Butterflyfish

Large

Few

 

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Large

Few

 

Pomacanthidae

 

Bicolor Angel

Large

Many

 

Coral Beauty

Medium

Many

 

Pearly-scaled Angel

Large

Many

 

Paracentropyge multifasciatus

Multi-barred Angelfish

Large

1

 

Regal Angelfish

Large

Many

 

Pomacentridae

 

Barrier Reef Anemonefish

Small

Many

 

Barrier Reef Anemonefish

Large

Many

 

Black Anemonefish

Large

Many

 

Black Anemonefish

Small

Few

 

Amphiprion peridraion

Pink Clownfish

Large

Few

 

Labridae

 

Black-backed Wrasse

Large

Many

 

Bodianus mesothorax

Blackbelt Hogfish

Small

1

 

Yellow Wrasse

Medium

Many

 

Cleaner Wrasse

Medium

Few

 

Cleaner Wrasse

Large

Few

 

Cleaner Wrasse

Small

1

 

Microdesmidae

 

Red Firefish

Medium

Few

 

Zanclidae

 

Moorish Idol

Large

Few

 

Acanthuridae

 

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Large

Many

 

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Medium

Many

Camera gear

Camera

Nikonos III

Lens

Nikkor 35mm f/2.5

Strobe

Aqua Sea Aquastrobe 80S

Photographs


Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to aproximate the depth of the subject.


Dendronephthya sp.
 

Goniopora sp.