Dive at The Wall, Mele Bay, Efate, Vanuatu on 23/1/11 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

23 January, 2011

Time

2:24pm - 3:17pm

Details

Also known as Hideaway I, The Wall is exactly as it sounds, a near vertical wall which descends to 90 metres or more. We descended the mooring and first headed to the wall itself. We then headed around the corner to the reef flat and slowly back to the mooring.

Buddy

Ken Bradley

Seas

Flat

Visibility

15-20 metres

Duration

52 minutes

Maximum depth

20.8 m

Average depth

11.7 m

Water temperature

28.0°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

1:52am

0.09m

High

8:21am

1.33m

Low

2:22pm

0.43m

High

8:08pm

1.26m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro 12-24mm f/4 +4 dipoter

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.51

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.


Swimming feather star. 18.3 m.
 

Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus colony. 12.2 m.
 

Ken annoying pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 14.4 m.
 

Salifin tang, Zebrasoma veliferum. 15.4 m.
 

Feather star. 11.5 m.
 

Stars and stripes puffer, Arothron hispidus. 12.5 m.
 

Titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens. 11.4 m.
 

Ken annoying Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 4 m.
 

Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 4 m.