Dive Details

Location

Date

19 August, 2008

Time

12:27pm - 1:04pm

Details

My aim on this dive was to try and find the weedy scorpionfish, Rhinopias aphanes, I saw here in 2003. I failed. I was, however, rewarded with a school of 20-30 scalloped hammerheads, Sphyrna lewini. I also saw a grey reef whaler, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, being cleaned. The shark swum vertically in the water and slowly sunk while it was cleaned by fish. Another shark was waiting to be cleaned.

Buddy

Tim Everest

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

30

Duration

37 minutes

Maximum depth

30.5 m

Average depth

15.3 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

4:29am

0.92m

High

10:01am

2.19m

Low

4:09pm

0.73m

High

10:27pm

2.59m

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.

Purple firefish, Nemateleotris decora. 30.1 m.
 

Purple firefish, Nemateleotris decora. 30.2 m.
 

Sea star. 25.5 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. 15 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. 14.8 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. 14.9 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 16.7 m.
 

Soft coral (Nephtheidae). 14.4 m.
 

Soft coral. 6.1 m.
 

Staghorn coral, Acropora sp. 5.1 m.
 

Arc-eye hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus. 5.1 m.