Dive Details

Location

Date

28 May, 2007

Time

3:44pm - 4:32pm

Details

Drift dive on western wall to North Horn.

Buddy

Tim Everest

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

30

Duration

48 minutes

Maximum depth

22.8 m

Average depth

11.6 m

Water temperature

26.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Leggatt Island, Queensland

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

Low

1:25am

1.36m

High

7:02am

2.21m

Low

1:27pm

0.83m

High

8:10pm

2.42m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D70

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6807.1

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS125

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.

Sea anemone, Heteractis crispa with aneomefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus and possibly A. akindynos. 22 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, A. chrysopterus. 21.9 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, A. chrysopterus. 21.8 m.
 

Sea fan. 21.9 m.
 

Sea fan. 21.9 m.
 

Sea fan. 21.8 m.
 

Sea whips. 20.6 m.
 

Sea fan. 20.1 m.
 

Sea fan. 20.8 m.
 

Sea fan. 20.3 m.
 

Sea fan. 20.2 m.
 

Turbinaria sp., probably T. reniformis. 20.3 m.
 

Pachyseris sp. colonies. 20.4 m.
 

Sea fan. 18.8 m.
 

Favites sp. colony. 18.9 m.
 

Sea fan. 18.1 m.
 

Sea fan. 17.7 m.
 

Sea fan. 17.1 m.
 

Sea fan. 15.9 m.
 

Nephtheid soft coral. 15.8 m.
 

Sarcophyton sp. colony. 15.5 m.
 

Soft coral. 13.4 m.
 

Sea fan. 12.8 m.
 

Pearl coral, Physogyra lichtensteini. 11.5 m.
 

Soft coral. 12.7 m.
 

Soft coral. 12.3 m.
 

Soft coral. 12.2 m.
 

Sea fan. 12 m.