Dive Details

Location

Date

23 October, 2011

Time

6:45pm - 7:34pm

Details

The first night dive of the trip. It was unguided but we headed down to the same towers from the previous dive. After investigating the towers we came back up along the reef slope.

I was hoping to see another flamboyant cuttlefish but didn't.

Buddy

Peter Waters

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

49 minutes

Maximum depth

20.0 m

Average depth

14.5 m

Water temperature

29.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Pakalangan, Sabah MST

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

High

2:53am

1.70m

Low

9:20am

0.60m

High

3:30pm

1.80m

Low

9:40pm

0.60m

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

Strobes

Ikelite SubStrobe DS125

Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

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.

Sea pen, possibly Virgularia sp. 17.5 m.
 

Hermit crab, Dardanus pedunculatus. 16.8 m.
 

Sleeping black-saddled toby, Canthigaster valentini. 15.7 m.
 

Crab. 13.4 m.
 

Sea fan. 16.3 m.
 

Hermit crab, Dardanus pedunculatus. 16.1 m.
 

False clown anemonefish, Amphiprion ocellaris. 16.1 m.
 

Sea star macro, Protoreaster nodosus. 2.1 m.