Dive Details

Location

Date

22 August, 2006

Time

3:53pm - 4:47pm

Details

Drift dive along west wall

Buddy

Colin Keene

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

20

Duration

54 minutes

Maximum depth

18.8 m

Average depth

10.8 m

Water temperature

24.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

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.

Two Lobophyllia sp. colonies. Smaller one is probably L. pachysepta. 17.8 m.
 

Herald's angelfish, Centropyge heraldi. 17.4 m.
 

Masked bannerfish, Heniochus monoceros. 15 m.
 

Many-banded angelfish, Centropyge multifasciata. 15.2 m.
 

Sea fan. 16.1 m.
 

Sea fan. 16 m.
 

Sea fan. 16.8 m.
 

Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchus giganteus, in Porites colony. 16.7 m.
 

Sea fan. 16.2 m.
 

Sea fan. 16 m.
 

Sea fan. 14.2 m.
 

Fire coral, Millepora sp. 12.8 m.
 

Sea fan, possibly Ellisella sp. 14.2 m.
 

Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchus giganteus, in Porites colony. 11.8 m.
 

Turbinaria reniformis. 10.5 m.
 

Soft coral. 9.1 m.
 

Sea fan. 11.2 m.
 

Soft coral. 10.7 m.
 

Yellow longnose butterflyfish, Forcipiger flavissimus. 9.1 m.
 

Sea anemone, Stichodactyla sp., with Amphiprion chrysopterus. 10.1 m.
 

Orange spotted filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris. 8.1 m.
 

Nautilus pompilius (captured at Admiralty Anchor).