Dive Details
Location
Date
30 May, 2007
Time
7:12pm - 8:09pm
Details
Night dive
Buddy
Padelis Papadopoulus
Seas
Slight
Visibility
20m
Duration
57 minutes
Maximum depth
13.4 m
Average depth
8.2 m
Water temperature
26.3°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Leggatt Island, Queensland.
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
2:30am
1.40m
High
7:40am
2.04m
Low
2:00pm
0.73m
High
9:00pm
2.50m
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.
Flame file shell, Lima sp. 12.3 m.
Tubastraea sp. 12.6 m.
Tubastraea sp. 11.5 m.
Spot-fin lionfish, Pterois antennata. 11.9 m.
Sea cucumber, Thelanota ananas. 11.6 m.
Tubastraea sp. 12.2 m.
Tubastraea sp. 11.6 m.
Tubastraea sp. 11.1 m.
Close up of sea cucumber, Thelanota ananas. 11.2 m.
A group of 4 pipefish, Corythoichthys sp. (probably C. schultzi). 11.7 m. There had been more in the group, but they dispersed as I approached.
Tubastraea sp. 11.9 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris elisabethina. 12.1 m.
Nudibranch, C. elisabethina. 12 m.
Hermit crab. 10.4 m.
Orange sponge. 10.2 m.
Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 9.5 m.
Nephtheid soft coral, possibly Dendronephthya sp. 9.9 m.
Tubastraea sp. 8.9 m.
Tubastraea sp. 8.3 m.
Tubastraea sp. 8.3 m.
Tubastraea sp. 8 m.
Tubastraea sp. 7.7 m.
Dendrophylliid, possibly Dendrophyllia sp. 5.6 m.
Hinge-beak shrimp, Rhynchocoinetes sp. 6.5 m.
Hinge-beak shrimp, Rhynchocoinetes sp. 6.7 m.
Banded coral shrimp, Stenopus hispidus. 7.1 m.
Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 10.3 m.
Tubastraea sp. 5 m.
Tubastraea sp. 5.3 m.
Tubastraea sp. 4.9 m.
Two banded coral shrimp, Stenopus hispidus. 4 m.
Padelis. 6.9 m.
Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 2.9 m.