Dive Details
Location
Clam Gardens, Ribbon Reef #3, GBR,
Date
15 September, 2005
Time
10:55am - 11:56am
Details
All the photographs on this dive were taken without a strobe which is why they all have a blue cast. Some photographs I have attempted to fix using PaintShopPro and they may look "photoshopped".
Buddy
Jamie Newman
Seas
Flat
Visibility
20
Duration
61 minutes
Maximum depth
17.1 m
Average depth
5.8 m
Water temperature
24.4°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides
Low
1:36am
0.72m
High
7:02am
2.23m
Low
1:13pm
0.26m
High
7:42pm
3.10m
Species Seen
Species
Common name
Size
(mm)
Number
Potato Cod
Triangular Butterflyfish
Bennett's Butterflyfish
Citron Butterflyfish
Saddled Butterflyfish
Klein's Butterflyfish
Lined Butterflyfish
Black-back Butterflyfish
Merten's Butterflyfish
Ornate Butterflyfish
Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish
Blue-dash Butterflyfish
Oval-Spot Butterflyfish
Redfin Butterflyfish
Double-saddle Butterflyfish
Vagabond Butterflyfish
Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish
Pennant Bannerfish
Bicolor Angel
Coral Beauty
Pearly-scaled Angel
Regal Angelfish
Barrier Reef Anemonefish
Orange-fin Anemonefish
Amphiprion clarkii
Clark's anemonefish
Black Anemonefish
Dascyllus aruanus
Humbug Dascyllus
Three-spot Dascyllus
Black-backed Wrasse
Coris aygula
Clown Wrasse
Gaimard's Wrasse
Checkerboard Wrasse
Cleaner Wrasse
Thalassoma janseni
Jansen's Wrasse
Pencilled Surgeon
Orangespine Unicornfish
Blue-Spine Unicornfish
Brown Sailfin Tang
Moorish Idol
Siganus corallinus
Coral Rabbitfish
Foxface
Titan Triggerfish
Black Triggerfish
Orange-Spotted Filefish
Half-moon Triggerfish
Red Starfish
Sepia latimanus
Broadclub Cuttlefish
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon Coolpix 4500
Housing
Ikelite 6186
Strobe
None
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.
Porites sp. at 16.6 m.
Sea cucumber, possibly Holothuria leucospilota, at 16.5 m.
Acropora sp. at 15.1 m.
Cuttlefish eggs, probably from Sepia latimanus, in Porites sp. colony at 9.8 m.
Fungia sp. at 10.8 m.
Lobophyllia sp. at 11.1 m.
Euphyllia divisa at 11.2 m.
Large Euphyllia divisa colony at 11.5 m.
Acropora sp, at 10 m.
Stylophora pistillata at 9.4 m,
Porites vaughani at 9.6 m.
Sea urchin at 9 m.
Goniopora sp. at 8.9 m.
Seriatopora hystrix at 8.2 m.
Pories cylindrica at 7.1 m.
Acropora florida at 6.8 m.
Giant clam, Tridacna gigas, at 5.7 m.
Amphiprion akindynos at 4.5 m.
Giant clam, Tridacna gigas, at 3 m.
Tridacna sp. at 3.6 m.
Algae at 6.2 m.
Acropora sp. at 4.3 m.
Euphyllia divisa at 4.9 m.
Broadclub cuttlefish, Sepia latimanus, at 3.2 m.
Two broadclub cuttlefish, Sepia latimanus, at 4.5 m.
Sea cucumber and Xenia sp. at 4 m.
Broadclub cuttlefish, Sepia latimanus, at 4 m.
Broadclub cuttlefish, Sepia latimanus, possibly preparing to lay eggs in the Porites cylindrica colony at 3.9 m.
Broadclub cuttlefish, Sepia latimanus, at 2.2 m.
Acropora sp. at 4.9 m.
Acropora sp., probably A, aculeus, at 5.1 m.
Hydnophora rigida at 5.3 m.
Acropora sp. at 5.6 m.
Acropora sp. at 5.7 m.
Acropora sp. at 5.3 m.
Pocillopora damicornis at 5.4 m. Note the proximity of the soft coral behind and the mussid coral in the foreground.
Acropora sp. at 5.3 m.
Acropora sp. at 5.3 m.
Acropora sp. at 4.7 m.
Pocillopora damicornis at 4.5 m.
Pocillopora damicornis at 3.6 m.
Acropora sp. at 3.3 m.
Stylophora pistillata at 3.2 m,
Acropora sp. at 5.3 m.
Black spotted puffer, Arothon nigropunctatus, at 4.9 m.
Acropora sp. at 5.5 m.