Dive Details |
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Location |
Torpedo Alley, Nusa Kode, Indonesia |
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Date |
25 August, 2012 |
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Time |
6:09pm - 7:06pm |
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Details |
The 16th dive on the Pa Siren trip and the third dive on Rinca Island.
This was one incredible night dive. I saw so many odd and unusual organisms it was tremendous fun. There was a crab with a sand dollar on its back (although I didn't realise it was a sand dollar until I looked at the photos) and other crabs with upside-down jellyfish on their backs. There were many other crabs, a torpedo ray, a big pleurobranch, nudibranchs and a cuttlefish. |
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Buddy |
John Mckeon, Sheree Papuni |
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Seas |
Flat |
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Visibility |
5-10 metres |
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Duration |
57 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
13.0 m |
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Average depth |
6.9 m |
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Water temperature |
23.3°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D7000 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6801.70 |
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Lens port |
Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41 |
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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.
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Sun coral. 11.1 m. |
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Sea pen. 11.6 m. |
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Hermit crab. 11.9 m. |
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Spider crab. 11 m. |
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Zebra crab, Zebrida adamsii, in fire urchin. 11 m. |
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Zebra crab, Zebrida adamsii in fire urchin. 11.1 m. |
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Moray eel. 11.8 m. |
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Dorippid crab with sand dollar. 12.3 m. |
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Dorippid crab with sand dollar. 12.6 m. |
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Crab. 13 m. |
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Torpedo ray, Torpedo sp. 5.4 m. |
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Torpedo ray, Torpedo sp. 5.5 m. |
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Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 7.1 m. |
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Spider crab. 7.5 m. |
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Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus forskalii. 6.7 m. |
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Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus forskalii. 6.9 m. |
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Dwarf lionfish Dendrochirus brachypterus, with copepod parasite on its eye. 6.7 m. |
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Upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea, with host dorippid crab. 2.9 m. |
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Venus shrimp, Periclimenes venustus. 2.8 m. |
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Venus shrimp, Periclimenes venustus. 2.8 m. |
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Cuttlefish, Sepia. 2.6 m. |
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Cuttlefish, Sepia. 2.6 m. |
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Nudibranch, Chromodoris coi. 5 m. |
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