Dive Details

Location

Raging Horn, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea,

Date

03 September, 2003

Time

8:18am - 9:07am

Seas

Slight

Visibility

20 m

Duration

49 minutes

Maximum depth

30.0 m

Average depth

14.1 m

Water temperature

24.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides

High

1:57am

1.70m

Low

8:56am

0.90m

High

4:30pm

2.15m

High

11:11pm

1.26m

Species Seen

Species

Common name

Size
(mm)

Number

Fairy Basslet

Purple Anthias

Hawk Anthias

Royal Dottyback

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Chaetodon baronessa

Triangular Butterflyfish

Citron Butterflyfish

Saddled Butterflyfish

Klein's Butterflyfish

Lined Butterflyfish

Merten's Butterflyfish

Ornate Butterflyfish

Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish

Chaetodon reticulatus

Reticulated 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

Herald's Angelfish

Genicanthus melanospilos

Blackspot Angelfish

Amphiprion chrysopterus

Orange-fin Anemonefish

Amphiprion perideraion

Pink Clownfish

Three-spot Dascyllus

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

Eastern Leopard Wrasse

Pseudocheilinus hexataenia

Sixline Wrasee

Yellow Moon Wrasse

Red Firefish

Orangespine Unicornfish

Naso unicornis

Blue-Spine Unicornfish

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Zebrasoma veliferum

Sailfin Tang

Moorish Idol

Balistapus undulatus

Orange-lined Triggerfish

Balistoides conspicillum

Clown Triggerfish

Blackspotted Puffer

Whitetip Reef Shark

Sebae Anemone

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.

Acropora (Isopora) palifera at 10.5 m.
 

Close up of Acropora (Isopora) palifera at 10.5 m showing distinction between axial and radial corallites.
 

Bubble coral, Plerogyra sinuosa, at 11 m.
 

Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion, in anemone, probably Heteractis magnifica, at 18 m.
 

Asymbiotic nephtheid soft coral, possibly Dendronephthya sp., at 25 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus in anemone, Heteractis crispa, at 30.5 m.
 

Asymbiotic sea fan, possibly Paracis sp., at 30.5 m.
 

Asymbiotic nephtheid soft coral, possibly Dendronephthya sp., at 30 m.
 

Asymbiotic nephtheid soft coral, possibly Dendronephthya sp., at 30 m.
 

A pair of red firefish, Nemateleotris magnifica, at 27 m.
 

Asymbiotic soft coral, probably in the family Nephtheidae, at 27 m.
 

Orange sponge at 14 m.
 

Acropora sarmentosa at 13 m.
 

Asymbiotic nephtheid soft coral, possibly Dendronephthya sp., at 8 m.