Dive Details
Location
North Horn, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea,
Date
02 September, 2003
Time
11:54am - 12:49pm
Seas
Slight
Visibility
20 m
Duration
54 minutes
Maximum depth
27.0 m
Average depth
11.7 m
Water temperature
25.1°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides
High
12:21am
1.97m
Low
7:03am
0.89m
High
2:35pm
1.93m
High
8:56pm
1.40m
Species Seen
Species
Common name
Size
(mm)
Number
Weedy Scorpionfish
Fairy Basslet
Purple Anthias
Hawk Anthias
Royal Dottyback
Threadfin Butterflyfish
Triangular Butterflyfish
Bennett's Butterflyfish
Citron Butterflyfish
Saddled Butterflyfish
Dusky Butterflyfish
Klein's Butterflyfish
Lined Butterflyfish
Oval Butterflyfish
Black-back Butterflyfish
Merten's Butterflyfish
Ornate Butterflyfish
Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish
Blue-dash Butterflyfish
Reticulated Butterflyfish
Oval-Spot Butterflyfish
Chevroned Butterflyfish
Redfin Butterflyfish
Double-saddle Butterflyfish
Teardrop Butterflyfish
Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish
Pyramid Butterflyfish
Pennant Bannerfish
Masked Bannerfish
Humphead Bannerfish
Bicolor Angel
Coral Beauty
Pearly-scaled Angel
Regal Angelfish
Orange-fin Anemonefish
Dascyllus aruanus
Humbug Dascyllus
Three-spot Dascyllus
Arc-eye Hawkfish
Blackside Hawkfish
Black-backed Wrasse
Bodianus axillaris
Coral Hogfish
Gomphorus varius
Bird Wrasse
Checkerboard Wrasse
Bicolour Cleaner Wrasse
Cleaner Wrasse
Pseudocheilinus hexataenia
Sixline Wrasee
Moon Wrasse
Yellow Moon Wrasse
Cetoscarus bicolor
Bicolor Parrotfish
Red Firefish
Lined Surgeon
Orangespine Unicornfish
Brown Sailfin Tang
Sailfin Tang
Moorish Idol
Orange-lined Triggerfish
Black Boxfish
Blackspotted Puffer
Grey Reef Shark
Whitetip Reef Shark
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.
Weedy scorpionfish, Rhinopus aphenes, at 25 m.
Acropora aculeus at 26 m.
Sponge at 26.5 m.
A pair of red firefish, Nemateleotris magnifica, at 22 m.
Xenia sp. at 22 m.
Xenia sp. at 19.5 m.
Lobophyllia pachysepta at 16 m.
Remora at 16 m.
White-tip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus, and Shane at 17 m.
Sarcophyton sp. at 9.5 m.
Potato cod, Epinephelus tukula, at 9 m.
A yellow Pocillopora verrucosa colony at 9.5 m.
Lobophytum sp. at 9 m.
A pink Pocillopora verrucosa colony at 9 m. Note crab in colony.
A close up of the pink Pocillopora verrucosa colony showing the crab.
Axilspot hogfish, Bodianus axillaris, at 11 m.
Potato cod, Epinephelus tukula, at 10.5 m.
Acropora sp. at 9 m.
Masked bannerfish, Heniochus monoceros, at 6.5 m.
Acropora sp. at 8 m.
Symphyllia sp. at 7 m.
Acropora sp. at 7 m.
Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus, at 5.5 m.