Dive Details

Location

Date

18 August, 2008

Time

3:02pm - 3:43pm

Buddy

Tim Everest

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

30m

Duration

41 minutes

Maximum depth

25.3 m

Average depth

13.4 m

Water temperature

24.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Leggatt Island, Queensland

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

Low

4:00am

0.93m

High

9:27am

2.21m

Low

3:37pm

0.57m

High

10:00pm

2.70m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

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

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

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.

Blue tilefish, Hoplolatilus starcki. 25 m.
 

Red firefish, Nemateleotris magnifica. 24.8 m.
 

Pennant Bannerfish, Heniochus chrysostomus. 18.8 m.
 

Female striped boxfish, Ostracion solorensis. 18.7 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 18.3 m.
 

Humphead bannerfish, Heniochus varius. 17.2 m.
 

Arc-eye hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus. 15.7 m.
 

Double-saddle butterflyfish, Chaetodon ulietensis. 14.9 m.
 

Arc-eye hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus. 16.6 m.
 

Pearl coral, Physogyra lichtensteini. 12.5 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 7.4 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 5.2 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 4.2 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 5 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 4.9 m.
 

Acropora sp. colony. 5.2 m.