Dive Details

Location

Eagle Rock, Ribbon Reef #10, GBR,

Date

31 August, 2003

Time

12:46pm - 1:32pm

Details

Inside Ribbon Reef #10

Buddy

Shane Dyson

Seas

Flat

Visibility

10 m

Duration

46 minutes

Maximum depth

10.2 m

Average depth

6.2 m

Water temperature

24.3°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides

Low

5:12am

0.73m

High

11:16am

2.05m

Low

5:17pm

0.88m

High

11:31pm

2.27m

Species Seen

Species

Common name

Size
(mm)

Number

Fairy Basslet

Royal Dottyback

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Chaetodon baronessa

Triangular Butterflyfish

Citron Butterflyfish

Klein's Butterflyfish

Lined Butterflyfish

Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish

Blue-dash Butterflyfish

Chevroned Butterflyfish

Chaetodon trifasciatus

Redfin Butterflyfish

Double-saddle Butterflyfish

Teardrop Butterflyfish

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Heniochus chrysostomus

Pennant Bannerfish

Heniochus varius

Humphead Bannerfish

Bicolor Angel

Coral Beauty

Pearly-scaled Angel

Regal Angelfish

Amphiprion perideraion

Pink Clownfish

Black-backed Wrasse

Gomphorus varius

Bird Wrasse

Checkerboard Wrasse

Labroides bicolor

Bicolour Cleaner Wrasse

Thalassoma janseni

Jansen's Wrasse

Amblygobius rainfordi

Rainford's Goby

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Moorish Idol

Siganus puellus

Bluelined Rabbitfish

Linckia laevigata

Blue Starfish

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon Coolpix 4500

Housing

Ikelite 6186

Strobe

Ikelite SubStrobe DS50

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.

Ascidian, Polycarpa aurata at 9.4 m.
 

Dendronephthya sp. at 9.1 m.
 

Acropora nasuta at 9.5 m.
 

Blue seastar, Linkia laevigata at 9.4 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 6.7 m. Note Christmas tree worm.
 

Close up of Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus sp. in Acropora sp. colony.
 

Acropora sp. at 6.6 m.
 

Favia sp. at 6.3 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 6 m.
 

Amphiprion perideraion in anemone (probably Heteractis magnifica) at 7 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 7 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 6.6 m.
 

Fromia indica at 6.1 m
 

Acropora sp. at 7 m.
 

Acropora spathulata at 5 m.
 

Fromia indica at 5 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 6 m.
 

Acropora sarmentosa at 5.5 m.
 

Pearl coral, Physogyra lichtensteini at 8 m.
 

Fire coral, Millepora sp. at 6.1 m.
 

Acropora florida at 6.2 m.
 

Pearl coral, Physogyra lichtensteini at 5 m.
 

Goniopora sp. at 6 m.
 

Goniopora sp. at 6 m.
 

Acropora hyacinthus at 5.5 m.
 

Dendronephthya sp. at 6 m.
 

Acropora sarmentosa at 5 m.