Dive Details

Location

Admiralty Anchor, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea,

Date

12 September, 2005

Time

8:37am - 9:20am

Buddy

Tristan

Seas

Flat

Visibility

35

Duration

43 minutes

Maximum depth

30.9 m

Average depth

14.8 m

Water temperature

25.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides

Low

12:36am

1.36m

High

4:25am

1.56m

Low

10:31am

1.03m

High

5:59pm

2.47m

Species Seen

Species

Common name

Size
(mm)

Number

Pseudanthias huchtii

Threadfin Anthias

Fairy Basslet

Purple Anthias

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Klein's Butterflyfish

Blue-dash Butterflyfish

Oval-Spot 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

Coral Beauty

Herald's Angelfish

Regal Angelfish

Amphiprion chrysopterus

Orange-fin Anemonefish

Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus

Spotted Hawkfish

Arc-eye Hawkfish

Blackside Hawkfish

Black-backed Wrasse

Coris gaimard

Gaimard's Wrasse

Cleaner Wrasse

Red Firefish

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Moorish Idol

Balistoides viridescens

Titan Triggerfish

Blackspotted Puffer

Canthigaster valentini

Saddled Puffer

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon Coolpix 4500

Housing

Ikelite 6186

Strobe

Ikelite SubStrobe DS-50

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.

Octopus, Octopus cyanea, at 29.3 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 27.1 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 24.6 m.
 

Lobophyllia pachysepta at 24.2 m.
 

Lobophyllia pachysepta at 24.2 m shot with filters to show fluorescence.
 

Acropora aculeus at 21.6 m.
 

Pocillopora sp. at 21.5 m.
 

A few colonies of nephtheid soft corals at 21.7 m.
 

Sarcophyton sp. at 20.4 m.
 

Pocillopora sp. at 19.7 m.
 

Acropora sp. between two Sarcophyton sp. at 19.9 m.
 

Turbinaria sp. (probably T. reniformis) at 19.7 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 18.8 m.
 

Close up of Acropora sp. at 18.8 m.
 

Pocillopora verrucosa at 16.3 m.
 

Pocillopora verrucosa at 17.2 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 14.4 m.
 

Poritres sp. at 14.8 m.
 

Poritres sp. at 14.8 m shot with filters to show fluorescence.
 

Clam, Tridacna sp., at 14.2 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 11.5 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 11.8 m.
 

Porites cylindrica at 9.9 m.
 

Clam, Tridacna sp., at 9.4 m.
 

Crinoid at 7.7 m.
 

Reef scene at 4.2 m.
 

Acropora sp. and Amphiprion sp. at 4.5 m.
 

Reef scene at 3.9 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 4.6 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 5.6 m.
 

Acropora sp. and soft coral, probably Lobophytum at 5 m.
 

Acropora sp. and Halimeda sp. at 4.8 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 4.3 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 4.7 m.
 

Fire coral, Millepora sp., at 4.7 m.
 

Porites cylindrica at 5.2 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 5.2 m.
 

Pocillopora verrucosa at 5.2 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 5 m.
 

Acropora sp. at 4.5 m.