Dive Details
Location
Boat Beach Island, Seal Rocks, NSW,
Date
27 May, 2006
Time
10:42am - 12:29pm
Details
Swan along reef and then onto island
Buddy
Tim Everest, Bernie Davison
Seas
Slight
Visibility
15
Duration
81 minutes
Maximum depth
9.8 m
Average depth
4.4 m
Water temperature
19.1°C
Tides
Low
2:18am
0.33m
High
8:13am
1.38m
Low
1:48pm
0.49m
High
8:23pm
1.93m
Species Seen
Species
Common name
Size
(mm)
Number
Pineapplefish
Large
2
Orange Basslet
Small
1
Dusky Butterflyfish
Medium
1
Günther's butterflyfish
Medium
Many
Klein's Butterflyfish
Medium
Few
Chelmonops truncatus
Truncate Coralfish
Large
1
Schooling Bannerfish
Medium
2
Pomacentrus australis
Australian Damsel
Medium
Few
Blue Damsel
Medium
Many
Cirrhitichthys aprinus
Blotched Hawkfish
Medium
1
Eastern Blue Groper
Large
Few
Diamond Wrasse
Small
Many
Comb Wrasse
Medium
Many
Pearly Wrasse
Small
Few
Dusky Wrasse
Small
1
Cleaner Wrasse
Medium
Many
Eastern Leopard Wrasse
Medium
Few
Macropharyngodon negrosensis
Black Leopard Wrasse
Small
1
Red-Spot Wrasse
Medium
Few
Moon Wrasse
Small
Many
Yellow Moon Wrasse
Medium
1
Pencilled Surgeon
Medium
Few
Moorish Idol
Medium
Few
Hawaiian Triggerfish
Medium
3
Wedge-tail Triggerfish
Medium
Many
Half-moon Triggerfish
Medium
Many
Eastern Smooth Boxfish
Large
Few
Yellow Boxfish
Small
Many
Black Boxfish
Medium
1
Fiddler Ray
Large
1
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D70
Lens
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF +4 diopter
Housing
Ikelite 6807.1
Lens port
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.55
Strobes
Ikelite SubStrobe DS-50
Ikelite SubStrobe DS-125
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.
Hawaiian triggerfish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus, hiding at 2.7 m.
Hawaiian triggerfish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus, at 2.6 m.
Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus, 2.6 m.
Juvenile cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, at 5 m.
Klein's butterflyfish, Chaetodon kleinii, at 4.1 m.
Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus, at 3.8 m
Günther's butterflyfish, Chaetodon guentheri 6.8 m.
A pair of pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris, at 9.1 m.
Starry toadfish, Arothon stellatus, at 9.2 m.
Dusky butterflyfish, Chaetodon flavirostris at 8.3 m.
Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis, at 8.5 m.
Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitchthys aprinus at 7.3 m.
Schooling bannerfish, Heniochus diphreutes, with mado, Atypichthys strigatus, at 7.7 m.
Black boxfish, Ostracion meleagris, at 7.4 m.
Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus, at 6.8 m.
Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus, at 6.8 m.
Truncate coralfish, Chelmonops tuncatus, at 4.6 m.
Fiddler ray, Trygonorrhina fasciata, at 1.6 m.