Dive Details

Location

Challenger Bay, Ribbon Reef #10, GBR,

Date

20 August, 2006

Time

4:18pm - 5:18pm

Buddy

Colin Keene

Seas

Slight

Visibility

20m

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

9.7 m

Average depth

6.5 m

Water temperature

23.9°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Port Douglas, Queensland

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

Low

1:52am

0.89m

High

7:21am

1.87m

Low

1:20pm

0.45m

High

8:00pm

2.73m

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.

Shrimp goby, Amblyeleotris sp. 8.9 m.
 

Red seastar. 7.7 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 6.7 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 7.1 m.
 

Shrimp goby, Amblyeleotris sp. 7.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllidia varicosa. 7.3 m.
 

Speckled sandperch, Parapercis hexophtalma. 6.8 m.
 

Blackside hawkfish, Paracirrhites forsteri. 6.2 m.
 

Six-bar angelfish, Pomacanthus sexstriatus. 5.8 m.
 

Porites sp. colony. 6.5 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 7.6 m.
 

Flowery cod, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus, with cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus. 8 m.
 

Steephead parrotfish, Chlorurus microrhinos. 7.9 m.
 

Porites cylindrica. 6.1 m.
 

Regal angelfish, Pygoplites diacanthus. 4.8 m.
 

Double-saddle butterflyfish, Chaetodon ulietensis. 4.4 m.
 

Regal angelfish, Pygoplites diacanthus. 4.8 m.
 

Spaghetti worms. 6.9 m.
 

Foxface, Siganus vulpinus. 6.2 m.
 

Blackside hawkfish, Paracirrhites forsteri. 6.4 m.
 

Yellow Moon Wrasse, Thalassoma lutescens. 3.7 m.
 

Montipora sp. colony. 5.2 m.
 

False-eye toby, Canthigaster papua. 5.1 m.
 

Lobophyllia sp. colony. 6.2 m.
 

Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus. 5.8 m.
 

Acropora florida with crinoid. 6.6 m.
 

Yellow longnose butterflyfish, Forcipiger flavissimus. 7.1 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 6.7 m.
 

Fungiid. 4.5 m.
 

Turbinaria peltata with columnar growth form. 4.3 m.
 

Turbinaria peltata with tiered growth form. Note that this is part of the same colony as in the previous photograph. 4.2 m.
 

Lined butterflyfish, Chaetodon lineolatus. 4.2 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony with two clams, Tridacna sp. in Porites sp. colony. 6.3 m.
 

Pennant Bannerfish, Heniochus chrysostomus. 7.5 m.
 

Red seastar, Fromia indica. 7.4 m.
 

Montipora sp. colony. 7.4 m.
 

Sea anemone, Heteractis magnifica, with pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 7.3 m.