Dive Details

Location

Date

31 May, 2007

Time

7:57am - 9:03am

Buddy

Tim Everest

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15m

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

15.5 m

Average depth

6.0 m

Water temperature

26.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Leggatt Island, Queensland

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

Low

3:00am

1.42m

High

8:00am

1.96m

Low

2:18pm

0.69m

High

9:25pm

2.52m

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.

Acropora sp. colony. 15.3 m.
 

Porites rus colony. 12.1 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 10.4 m.
 

Stylophora pistillata colony. 8.5 m.
 

Posterior end of sea cucumber, Thelenota anax. 8.6 m.
 

Posterior end of sea cucumber, T. anax. 8.6 m.
 

Stylophora pistillata colony. 7 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 7.5 m.
 

Clam, Tridacna sp. 7.1 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 6.9 m.
 

Giant clam, Tridacna gigas. 6 m.
 

Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 6.4 m.
 

Black anemonefish, A. melanopus. 6.4 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 8.1 m.
 

Porites sp. colony (with Pocillopora verrucosa to the left). 6.8 m.
 

Acropora sp. colonies. 6.6 m.
 

Acropora sp. colonies. 6.7 m.
 

Close up of Acropora sp. colony. 8 m.
 

Acropora millepora. 5.3 m.
 

Six-bar angelfish, Pomacanthus sexstiatus. 2.5 m.
 

Six-bar angelfish, P. sexstiatus. 2.8 m.
 

Six-bar angelfish, P. sexstiatus. 2.9 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 5 m.
 

Stylophora pistillata colony. 4.9 m.
 

Birdnose wrasse, Gomphosus varius. 5.1 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 5.9 m.
 

Giant clam, Tridacna gigas. 5.2 m.
 

Stylophora pistillata colony. 5 m.
 

A pair of dot-and-dash butterflyfish, Chaetodon pelewensis. 4.9 m.
 

Vagabond butterflyfish, Chaetodon vagabundus. 4.2 m.
 

Reef scene. 6.3 m.
 

Reef scene. 6.2 m.
 

Reef scene. 5.7 m.
 

Reef scene. 6.1 m.
 

Porites cylindrica bommie. 6.4 m.
 

Pocillopora damicornis. 5.8 m.
 

Close up of the mantle of a giant clam, Tridacna gigas. 5.7 m.
 

Six-bar angelfish, Pomacanthus sexstriatus, showing how fat they get. 3.9 m.
 

A pair of six-bar angelfish, Pomacanthus sexstriatus. 5.5 m.
 

Reef scene. 4.5 m.
 

Reef scene. 4.3 m.
 

Reef scene. 4.1 m.
 

Reef scene. 4.4 m.
 

Reef scene. 4.4 m.
 

Acropora sp. colonies. 4.3 m.
 

Soft coral, Isis sp., colony. 3.4 m.
 

Reef scene. 3.4 m.