Dive at End of the World, Agincourt Reef, GBR, on 16/9/05 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

End of the World, Agincourt Reef, GBR,

Date

16 September, 2005

Time

7:52am - 8:33am

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

Rough

Visibility

20

Duration

41 minutes

Maximum depth

17.8 m

Average depth

10.9 m

Water temperature

24.2°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

  Fish

 

Pomacanthidae

 

Bicolor Angel

 

Coral Beauty

 

Pearly-scaled Angel

 

Six-Bar Angelfish

 

Pomacentridae

 

Barrier Reef Anemonefish

 

Amphiprion chrysopterus

Orange-fin Anemonefish

 

Black Anemonefish

 

Amphiprion percula

Clown anemonefish

 

Amphiprion perideraion

Pink Clownfish

 

Three-spot Dascyllus

 

Labridae

 

Cleaner Wrasse

 

Thalassoma janseni

Jansen's Wrasse

 

Thalassoma lunare

Moon Wrasse

 

Microdesmidae

 

Red Firefish

 

Ptereleotris evides

Arrow Goby

 

Acanthuridae

 

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

 

Signanidae

 

Siganus corallinus

Coral Rabbitfish

 

Siganus puellus

Bluelined Rabbitfish

 

Balistidae

 

Balistapus undulatus

Orange-lined Triggerfish

 

Monocanthidae

 

Orange-Spotted Filefish

 

Ostraciidae

 

Ostracion meleagris

Black Boxfish

 

Tetraodontidae

 

Blackspotted Puffer

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.


Seriatopora hystrix with Xenia sp. 10.7 m.
 

Two colonies of Porites spp. with turtle weed, Chlorodesmis fastigiata, and soft corals, Xenia sp. 12 m.
 

Hydrocoral, Millepora sp. 12.6 m.
 

Seriatopora hystrix with various soft corals including, Sarcophyton sp. and Xenia sp., 14.2 m.
 

Sea fan, Isis sp. 15.5 m.
 

Acropora sarmentosa with soft corals. 15.1 m.
 

Acropora sarmentosa with turtle weed, Chlorodesmis fastigiata. 15.9 m.
 

Acropora sp. with soft corals. 16.1 m.
 

Acropora sp. with soft corals. 15.7 m.
 

Heteractis magnifica with Amphiprion perideraion. 12.7 m.
 

Very large Acropora sp. colony that has been overturned. The tips are growing. 12.6 m.
 

Reef scene. 12.1 m.
 

Reef scene. 12.4 m.
 

Stylophora pistillata and soft corals. 12.3 m
 

Reef scene. 12.4 m.
 

Acropora sp. with soft corals. 11.9 m.
 

Reef scene. 9.8 m.
 

Acropora sp. with Sarcophyton sp. colonies. 8.7 m.
 

Acropora sp. with algae. 8.3 m.
 

Heteractis magnifica. 9.3 m.
 

Reef scene. 8.5 m.
 

Heteractis magnifica. 15.9 m.
 

Euphyllia ancora. 16.3 m.
 

Euphyllia ancora. 17.6 m.
 

Acropora sp. 12.9 m.
 

Stichodactyla sp. anemone. 13.2 m.