Dive Details

Location

Date

23 August, 2012

Time

2:12pm - 2:59pm

Details

The eighth dive on the Pa Siren trip and second at Gili Lawa Laut.

After a quick descent to get out of the current, we moved slowly along and up the reef. We found a couple of ribbon eels. Also seen (by others): white tip reef shark, giant trevally, blue fin trevally, giant sweetlips, oriental sweetlips.

Buddy

John Mckeon, Sheree Papuni

Seas

Flat

Visibility

20 metres

Duration

47 minutes

Maximum depth

26.7 m

Average depth

17.2 m

Water temperature

26.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro Fisheye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.15 (without shade)

Strobe

2 x 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.

Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 26.3 m.
 

Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 26.6 m.
 

Sea fan. 20.4 m.
 

Giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia testudinaria. 17 m.
 

Giant moray eel, Gymnothorax javanicus. 18.2 m.
 

Pincushion sea star, Culcita novaeguineae. 13.1 m.
 

Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 12.3 m.
 

Sea star, Fromia monilis. 9.4 m.