Dive Details

Location

Date

21 August, 2008

Time

6:30pm - 7:17pm

Buddy

Gabriel

Seas

Slight

Visibility

20m

Duration

47 minutes

Maximum depth

17.9 m

Average depth

10.0 m

Water temperature

23.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Leggatt Island, Queensland

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

Low

5:35am

0.98m

High

11:38am

2.04m

Low

5:30pm

1.25m

High

11:21pm

2.19m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

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.

Staghorn coral, Acropora sp. 17 m.
 

Stony coral, Diploastrea heliopora, with partially extened tentacles. 16.6 m.
 

Flatworm, probably Pseudoceros dimidiatus. 16.3 m.
 

Flatworm. 15.9 m.
 

Flatworm, probably Pseudoceros dimidiatus. 17.2 m.
 

Flatworm. 15.9 m.
 

Sea star, Fromia indica. 16.1 m.
 

Sun coral, Tubastraea micrantha. 15.9 m.
 

Soft coral. 16.1 m.
 

Feather star. 15.1 m.
 

Sun coral, possibly Tubastraea sp. 14 m.
 

Sun coral, possibly Tubastraea sp. 13.5 m.
 

Sun coral, possibly Tubastraea sp. 12.6 m.
 

Spider crab, probably Oncinopus sp. 11.5 m.
 

Hermit crab. 11.8 m.
 

Shrimp, Saron sp. 10.2 m.
 

Branchlet of basket star, Astroboa nuda. 9.1 m.
 

Branchlet of basket star, Astroboa nuda. 9.2 m.
 

Sun coral, Tubastraea micrantha. 9.3 m.
 

Sun coral, possibly Tubastraea sp. 9.6 m.
 

Sun coral, possibly Tubastraea sp. 9.5 m.
 

Hermit crab. 7.1 m.
 

A pair of banded coral shrimp, Stenopus hispidus. 6.2 m.
 

Sun coral, possibly Tubastraea sp. 7.4 m.
 

Reef crab, Carpilius convexus. 5.6 m.
 

Reef crab, Carpilius convexus. 5.3 m.
 

Reef crab, Carpilius convexus. 5.5 m.
 

Sun coral, Tubastraea micrantha. 5.3 m.
 

Sun coral, possibly Tubastraea sp. 6.2 m.
 

Branchlet of basket star, Astroboa nuda. 4.1 m.