Dive Details

Location

Date

27 October, 2011

Time

8:47am - 9:43am

Details

Dive with Sipadan-Kapalai Dive Resort led by George

Steep reef slope with boulders. We headed down and along the slope with the reef to our left and then circled back further up the slope.

Buddy

Allan Cox

Seas

Flat

Visibility

10-20 metres

Duration

56 minutes

Maximum depth

21.6 m

Average depth

13.2 m

Water temperature

27.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Pakalangan, Sabah MST

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

High

5:50am

2.10m

Low

11:44am

0.20m

High

6:01pm

2.50m

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.

Tube anemone. 13.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllidia varicosa. 15.3 m.
 

Anchor coral, Euphyllia ancora. 17.3 m.
 

Decorator crab, Achaeus japonicus. 20 m.
 

Sea cucmber, Colochirus robustus. 18.9 m.
 

Organ-pipe coral, Tubipora sp. 20.6 m.
 

Anemone shrimp, Periclimenes brevicarpalis. 16.9 m.
 

Giant frogfish, Antennarius commersonii. 17.5 m.
 

Polyclad flatworm, Pseudoceros bifurcus. 18.1 m.
 

Sea star. 18.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllidiella pustulosa. 15.7 m.
 

Moray, Gymnothorax meleagris. 8.4 m.
 

Ribbon eel, Rhinomuraena quaesita. 5.1 m.