Dive Details

Location

Date

20 August, 2006

Time

7:08pm - 7:52pm

Details

Night Dive

Buddy

Colin Keene

Seas

Slight

Visibility

20

Duration

44 minutes

Maximum depth

11.8 m

Average depth

8.9 m

Water temperature

23.6°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.

Seastar showing regeneration from a single ray. 11.3 m.
 

Partially closed crinoid. 9.2 m.
 

Fungiid. 9.3 m.
 

Sea cucumber, Holothuria edulis. 9.3 m.
 

Red seastar. 9.7 m.
 

Sea cucumber, Holothuria edulis. 9.9 m.
 

Feeding tentacles of a buried sea cucumber. 11.2 m.
 

Juvenile blue tang, Paracanthurus hepatus, in Acropora sp. colony. 11.5 m.
 

Marbled cone, Conus marmoreus. 11.4 m.
 

Xenia sp. colony. 11 m.
 

Tubastraea sp. colony. 10.9 m.
 

Faviid. 10.9 m.
 

Hermit crab with sea anemone on its shell. 11.7 m.
 

Hermit crab with sea anemone on its shell. 11.7 m.
 

Hermit crab. 10.9 m.
 

Banded coral shrimp, Stenopus hispidus. 10.7 m.
 

Seastar. 10.6 m.
 

Stromb, Strombus sp. 8.6 m.
 

Unidentified crustacean. 8.8 m.
 

Sleeping blackspotted puffer, Arothon nigropunctatus. 8.4 m.
 

Red seastar, Fromia indica. 9.2 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony with extended tentacles. 9 m.
 

Fungiid. 8.8 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony with extended tentacles. 8.8 m.
 

Crinoid on Pocillopora sp. colony. 8.8 m.
 

Blue seastar, Linckia laevigata. 8.5 m.
 

Fungiid. 8.7 m.
 

Sea urchin. 9.1 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 9.2 m.
 

Acropora sarmentosa colony. 9.2 m.