Dive Details

Location

Date

21 August, 2006

Time

1:43pm - 2:36pm

Details

Headed south on the eastern side.

Buddy

Colin Keene

Seas

Slight

Visibility

30m

Duration

54 minutes

Maximum depth

30.9 m

Average depth

12.4 m

Water temperature

24.2°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Port Douglas

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

Low

2:15am

0.86m

High

7:53am

1.94m

Low

1:54pm

0.41m

High

8:29pm

2.73m

Species Seen

Species

Common name

Size
(mm)

Number

Fairy Basslet

Purple Anthias

Hawk Anthias

Blue-head Tilefish

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Chaetodon bennetti

Bennett's Butterflyfish

Citron Butterflyfish

Saddled Butterflyfish

Klein's Butterflyfish

Lined Butterflyfish

Black-back Butterflyfish

Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish

Blue-dash Butterflyfish

Oval-Spot Butterflyfish

Double-saddle Butterflyfish

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Heniochus monoceros

Masked Bannerfish

Heniochus varius

Humphead Bannerfish

Coral Beauty

Herald's Angelfish

Paracentropyge multifasciatus

Multi-barred Angelfish

Emperor Angelfish

Regal Angelfish

Amphiprion chrysopterus

Orange-fin Anemonefish

Arc-eye Hawkfish

Blackside Hawkfish

Black-backed Wrasse

Gomphorus varius

Bird Wrasse

Yellow Wrasse

Checkerboard Wrasse

Cleaner Wrasse

Pseudocheilinus hexataenia

Sixline Wrasee

Thalassoma janseni

Jansen's Wrasse

Yellow Moon Wrasse

Nemateleotris decora

Purple firefish

Red Firefish

Acanthurus lineatus

Lined Surgeon

Acanthurus nigricans

Whitecheek Surgeonfish

Orangespine Unicornfish

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Zebrasoma veliferum

Sailfin Tang

Moorish Idol

Balistapus undulatus

Orange-lined Triggerfish

Balistoides viridescens

Titan Triggerfish

Orange-Spotted Filefish

Blackspotted Puffer

Whitetip Reef Shark

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.

Blue-head tilefish, Hoplolatilus starki. 27.6 m.
 

Purple firefish, Nemateleotris decora. 25.7 m.
 

Blue-head tilefish, Hoplolatilus starki. 24.6 m.
 

Multiple juvenile fairy basslets, Pseudanthias squamipinnis. 17.4 m.
 

Soft coral, Lobophytum sp. 14.9 m.
 

Montipora sp. colony. 15.1 m.
 

Soft coral, Sarcophyton sp. 15.2 m.
 

Red firefish, Nemateleotris magnifica. 14.5 m.
 

Orange-spotted filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris. 13 m.
 

Male fairy basslet, Pseudanthias squamipinnis. 12.3 m.
 

Black-spotted puffer, Arothon nigropunctatus. 12.2 m.
 

Montipora sp. colony. 11.3 m.
 

Arc-eye hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus. 10.9 m.
 

Brown sailfin tang, Zebrasoma scopas. 8.2 m.
 

Lined tang, Acanthurus lineatus. 8.3 m.
 

Double-saddle butterflyfish, Chaetodon ulietensis. 10.6 m.
 

Two citron butterflyfish, Chaetodon citrinellus. 6.7 m.
 

Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus. 7.1 m.
 

Dot-and-dash butterflyfish, Chaetodon pelewensis. 5.4 m.
 

Eclipse butterflyfish, Chaetodon bennetti. 6.7 m.
 

Pennant bannerfish, Heniochus chrysostomus. 6.2 m.
 

Pennant bannerfish, Heniochus chrysostomus. 6.3 m.
 

Two pennant bannerfish, Heniochus chrysostomus. 6.3 m.
 

Male slingjaw wrasse, Epibulus insidiator. 5.7 m.
 

Eclipse butterflyfish, Chaetodon bennetti. 6.3 m.
 

Blue-dash butterflyfish, Chaetodon plebeius. 7.6 m.
 

Blackside hawkfish, Paracirrhites forsteri. 6.9 m.
 

Yellow moon wrasse, Thalassoma lutescens. 5.8 m.
 

Whitecheek surgeonfish, Acanthurus nigricans. 4.4 m.