Dive Details

Location

North Horn, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea,

Date

02 September, 2003

Time

3:39pm - 4:33pm

Details

Drop Dive

Seas

Slight

Visibility

20m

Duration

53 minutes

Maximum depth

24.1 m

Average depth

11.1 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

Fairy Basslet

Purple Anthias

Hawk Anthias

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Chaetodon baronessa

Triangular Butterflyfish

Chaetodon bennetti

Bennett's Butterflyfish

Citron Butterflyfish

Saddled Butterflyfish

Lined Butterflyfish

Black-back Butterflyfish

Merten's Butterflyfish

Ornate Butterflyfish

Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish

Blue-dash Butterflyfish

Chaetodon reticulatus

Reticulated Butterflyfish

Oval-Spot Butterflyfish

Chevroned Butterflyfish

Chaetodon trifasciatus

Redfin Butterflyfish

Double-saddle Butterflyfish

Teardrop Butterflyfish

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Hemitaurichthys polylepis

Pyramid Butterflyfish

Heniochus chrysostomus

Pennant Bannerfish

Heniochus monoceros

Masked Bannerfish

Heniochus varius

Humphead Bannerfish

Bicolor Angel

Coral Beauty

Pearly-scaled Angel

Paracentropyge multifasciatus

Multi-barred Angelfish

Regal Angelfish

Amphiprion chrysopterus

Orange-fin Anemonefish

Arc-eye Hawkfish

Blackside Hawkfish

Black-backed Wrasse

Bodianus axillaris

Coral Hogfish

Gomphorus varius

Bird Wrasse

Checkerboard Wrasse

Labroides bicolor

Bicolour Cleaner Wrasse

Cleaner Wrasse

Pseudocheilinus hexataenia

Sixline Wrasee

Cetoscarus bicolor

Bicolor Parrotfish

Orangespine Unicornfish

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Zebrasoma veliferum

Sailfin Tang

Moorish Idol

Balistapus undulatus

Orange-lined Triggerfish

Orange-Spotted Filefish

Blackspotted Puffer

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.

Nephthea sp. at 18.5 m.
 

Hawk anthias, Serranocirrhitus latus, at 19 m.
 

Female purple anthias, Pseudanthias tuka, at 20 m.
 

Female purple anthias, Pseudanthias tuka, at 21 m.
 

Male purple anthias, Pseudanthias tuka, at 22 m.
 

Pearl coral, Physogyra lichtensteini, at 19 m.
 

Symphyllia sp. at 17 m.
 

Blackspotted puffer, Arothon nigropunctatus, at 14 m.
 

Blackspotted puffer, Arothon nigropunctatus, at 14 m.
 

Seriatopora hystrix at 20 m.
 

Lobophyllia sp. at 19 m.
 

Ascidians at 17.5 m.
 

Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchus sp., at 17 m.
 

Pyramid butterflyfish, Hemitaurichthys polylepis at 12.5 m.
 

Double-saddle butterflyfish, Chaetodon ulietensis at 9 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. at 7 m.
 

Orange-spotted filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris, at 8 m.
 

Arc-eyed hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus, at 6 m.
 

Hermit crab in Acropora sp. at 5 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 4.5 m.
 

Acropora millepora at 5.5 m.
 

Masked bannerfish, Heniochus monoceros, at 7 m.
 

A pair of masked bannerfish, Heniochus monoceros, at 7 m.
 

Reef scene from 7 m.
 

Ornate butterflyfish, Chaetodon ornatissimus, at 8.5 m. Note also Xenia sp. the lower left and Dendronephthya sp. to the upper right.
 

Acropora sp. and Xenia sp. at 7 m.