Dive Details
Location
Turtle Bommie, Agincourt Reef, GBR,
Date
16 September, 2005
Time
10:41am - 11:40am
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
59 minutes
Maximum depth
11.0 m
Average depth
5.2 m
Water temperature
24.4°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides
Low
2:07am
0.57m
High
7:41am
2.43m
Low
1:51pm
0.12m
High
8:15pm
3.17m
Species Seen
Species
Common name
Size
(mm)
Number
Chevroned Butterflyfish
Forcipiger longirostris
Longnose Butterflyfish
Bicolor Angel
Coral Beauty
Pearly-scaled Angel
Regal Angelfish
Barrier Reef Anemonefish
Orange-fin Anemonefish
Black Anemonefish
Pink Clownfish
Three-spot Dascyllus
Spinecheek Anemonefish
Black-backed Wrasse
Cleaner Wrasse
Thalassoma janseni
Jansen's Wrasse
Cetoscarus bicolor
Bicolor Parrotfish
Moorish Idol
Siganus corallinus
Coral Rabbitfish
Orange-lined Triggerfish
Orange-Spotted Filefish
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.
Eggs of Amphiprion akindynos at 10.7 m.
Amphiprion akindynos in Stichodactyla sp. anemone (probably S. haddoni) at 10.7 m.
Lobophyllia sp. at 10.2 m.
Amphiprion akindynos in Heteractis crispa at 8.9 m.
Goniopora sp. at 8.8 m.
Lobophyllia sp. at 10.6 m.
Flatworm, possibly Pseudoceros bifurcus, at 8.6 m.
Pectinia sp. at 7.4 m.
A large tunicate of one species covered by a number of smaller tunicates or another species, Atriolum robustum, at 7.2 m.
A large colony of Physogyra lichtensteini at 6.8 m.
Acropora sp, colony at 6.5 m.
Amphiprion melanopus in Entacmaea quadricolor at 5.5 m.
Arc-eye hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus, at 4.7 m.
Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion, in Heteractis magnifica at 4.1 m.
Reef stonefish, Synanceia verrucosa, at 4.5 m.
Two reef stonefish, Synanceia verrucosa, at 4.1 m.
Spine-cheeked anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus and three spot dascyllus , Dascyllus trimaculatus, 4.3 m.
Sea cucumber, probably Thelenota ananas, at 4.5 m.
Fungia sp. at 5 m.
Acropora sp. at 4.1 m.
Soft coral, Lobophytum, with Acropora spp. colonies at 3.6 m.
Acropora florida (foreground) and Acropora sp. at 3.9 m.
Partially burried reef stonefish, Synanceia verrucosa, at 4.5 m.
Crescent-tail bigeye, Priacanthus hamrur, at 3.3 m.