Dive Details

Location

False Entrance, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea,

Date

02 September, 2003

Time

8:10am - 9:00am

Seas

Slight

Visibility

20 m

Duration

49 minutes

Maximum depth

22.6 m

Average depth

11.2 m

Water temperature

25.0°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

Purple Anthias

Royal Dottyback

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Chaetodon baronessa

Triangular Butterflyfish

Saddled Butterflyfish

Klein's Butterflyfish

Lined Butterflyfish

Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish

Chevroned Butterflyfish

Chaetodon trifasciatus

Redfin Butterflyfish

Double-saddle Butterflyfish

Teardrop Butterflyfish

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Hemitaurichthys polylepis

Pyramid Butterflyfish

Heniochus chrysostomus

Pennant Bannerfish

Heniochus varius

Humphead Bannerfish

Bicolor Angel

Coral Beauty

Pearly-scaled Angel

Regal Angelfish

Arc-eye Hawkfish

Blackside Hawkfish

Black-backed Wrasse

Bodianus axillaris

Coral Hogfish

Gomphorus varius

Bird Wrasse

Checkerboard Wrasse

Cleaner Wrasse

Thalassoma lunare

Moon Wrasse

Yellow Moon Wrasse

Red Firefish

Orangespine Unicornfish

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Moorish Idol

Balistoides conspicillum

Clown Triggerfish

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.

Hydroids, ascidians (Atriolum robustum) and Montipora sp. at 8 m.
 

Dendronephthya sp. at 19 m.
 

Juvenile blackside hawkfish, Paracirrhites forsteri at 21 m.
 

Xenia sp. at 22 m.
 

Ascidians, Perophora modificata, at 23 m.
 

Xenia sp. at 20 m.
 

Red alga at 17.2 m.
 

Ascidians, Atriolum robustum, at 16 m.
 

Ascidian, Atriolum robustum, at 15 m.
 

Colonial ascidian at 14.5 m.
 

Dendronephthya sp. at 16 m.
 

Sponge at 14 m.
 

Sponge at 13 m.
 

Whitetip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus at 15 m.
 

Ascidian, Didemnum molle, at 15 m.
 

Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchus sp., at 14 m.
 

Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchus sp., at 13 m.
 

Blackside hawkfish, Paracirrhites forsteri at 14 m.
 

Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchus sp., at 13 m.
 

Acropora hyacinthus at 13 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus sp., at 13 m.
 

Fire coral, Millepora sp.
 

Ed.