Dive Details

Location

Date

20 January, 2011

Time

9:12am - 10:14am

Details

After a long boat ride to the site we descended the mooring line. The site has a number of channels and swim-throughs. We zig-zagged back and forth through the channels and swim-through eventually returning to the mooring line for our safety stop.

Buddy

Sheila

Seas

Flat

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

19.3 m

Average depth

12.5 m

Water temperature

27.6°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Port Vila

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

High

5:42am

1.18m

Low

11:07am

0.57m

High

4:55pm

1.38m

Low

11:48pm

0.03m

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.

Spider conch, Lambis scorpius. 11.5 m.
 

Stony coral, Diploastrea heliopora. 15.7 m.
 

Mimic surgeonfish, Acanthurus pyroferus. 16.1 m.
 

Sea star. 12.4 m.
 

Pearl coral, Physogyra lichtensteini. 16.2 m.
 

Juvenile fairy wrase, Cirrhilabrus sp. 17 m.
 

Feather star. 16.2 m.
 

Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 18.1 m.
 

Stony coral, Symphyllia. 9.1 m.
 

Orange-spotted filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris. 9.7 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. 11.6 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus with blue-striped cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus. 11.7 m.
 

Orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. 11.7 m.