Dive at Kathleen Reef, Mele Bay, Efate, Vanuatu on 21/1/11

Dive at Kathleen Reef, Mele Bay, Efate, Vanuatu on 21/1/11 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

21 January, 2011

Time

11:14am - 12:00pm

Details

Kathleen Reef, named after a nearby wreck, the Kathleen, is a bommie with its top in around 12 metres of water. We descended the mooring line and droped to around 25 metres down one side of the bommie. We then swam around the bommie in a counter-clockwise direction, slowly ascending. There was a very strong current for the whole dive and much of the time we had to drag ourselves over the bottom. The safetly stop on the mooring line was hard work.

Buddy

Ken Bradley

Seas

Flat, but very strong current

Visibility

15-20m

Duration

45 minutes

Maximum depth

25.3 m

Average depth

14.9 m

Water temperature

26.9°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Port Vila

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

Low

12:29am

0.01m

High

7:00am

1.28m

Low

12:41pm

0.49m

High

6:28pm

1.38m

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.