Dive Details

Location

Date

28 August, 2012

Time

2:00pm - 2:59pm

Details

The 26th dive on the Pa Siren trip and the second dive at Castle Rock.

As with the other dives for the day, there was a lot less current. We spent the first part of the dive hovering and watching white-tip sharks swim by. We then went for a cruise around the reef all meeting up at the safety stop.

Buddy

John Mckeon

Seas

Slight

Visibility

20 metres

Duration

59 minutes

Maximum depth

21.1 m

Average depth

14.3 m

Water temperature

27.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

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.

Three-spot angelfish. Apolemichthys trimaculatus. 18.1 m.
 

Sea star, Fromia monilis. 19 m.
 

Sea star, Fromia monilis. 20.1 m.
 

Peter. 20.4 m.
 

Female ribbon eel, Rhinomuraena quaesita. 21 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllidiella pustulosa. 17.4 m.
 

Titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens. 13.1 m.
 

Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator. 12.7 m.
 

Sea fan. 9.2 m.
 

Giant moray eel, Gymnothorax javanicus. 11.8 m.
 

Alan and Francesco. 7 m.
 

Nicole, Sheree, Alan and Sheila. 7.5 m.
 

Nicole, Sheree, Alan and Sheila. 7.2 m.
 

Alan, Nicole and Sheila. 5.7 m.
 

Kay. 6 m.