Dive Details
Location
Date
23 February, 2013
Time
7:43am - 8:56am
Details
The eighth dive of the Raja Ampat trip in February 2013 on board the S/Y Indo Siren and our first of two dives at Magic Mountain.
As the name suggests, Magic Mountain is a sea mount, and quite a large one at that.
I was deemed an honorary "lady" for this dive and the next few when Sheree and I joined the ladies from Florida.
Kassandra was our guide and she didn't point out any macro subjects. It was still an interesting dive with 4 different species of anemonefish and quite a few white-tipped reef sharks at various points of the dive. As we hit the shallows there were 3 juvenile white-tipped reef sharks that swam under a large coral head and we watched them as the cruised around under that.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Choppy
Visibility
20+ metres
Duration
72 minutes
Maximum depth
27.0 m
Average depth
13.0 m
Water temperature
29.3°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Video
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D7000
Lens
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D
Housing
Ikelite 6801.70
Lens port
Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41
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.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 21.5 m.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 22.1 m.
Day octopus, Octopus cyanea. 22.1 m.
Nudibranch, Phyllidiopsis shireenae. 23.6 m.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 25.3 m.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 25.3 m.
Red firefish, Nemateleotris magnifica. 17.7 m.
Giant moray, Gymnothorax javanicus. 18.5 m.
Nudibranch, Phyllidia elegans. 17.1 m.
False clown anemonefish, Amphiprion ocellaris. 17 m.
False clown anemonefish, Amphiprion ocellaris. 17.1 m.
Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 15.6 m.
Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 11.6 m.
Juvenile white-tipped reef shark, Triaenodon obesus. 10.7 m.
Spine-cheeked anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus. 8.9 m.
Spine-cheeked anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus. 9.1 m.
Spine-cheeked anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus. 9 m.
Spine-cheeked anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus. 8.9 m.
Black-backed hawkfish, Paracirrhites forsteri. 8.6 m.