Dive Details

Location

Date

24 February, 2013

Time

7:07pm - 8:09pm

Details

The 15th dive of the Raja Ampat trip in February 2013 on board the S/Y Indo Siren and the second dive at Barracuda Rock. It was also a night dive.

A fun dive with a pygmy squid and lots of spider crabs. Ewe and Thomas found a cuttlefish but chased it into deeper water. I did a quick bounce to 16m to get a photograph. We also found an epaulette shark hiding under a coral head.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15

Duration

62 minutes

Maximum depth

16.8 m

Average depth

7.7 m

Water temperature

28.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

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.

Sun coral. 11.3 m.
 

Sun coral. 10.4 m.
 

Sun coral. 10.1 m.
 

Hermit crab, Dardanus pedunculatus. 7 m.
 

Pygmy squid. 7.2 m.
 

Yellow-edged moray, Gymnothorax flavimarginata. 7.2 m.
 

Spider crab. 9.9 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 15.6 m.
 

Skin of an epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium ocellatum. 4.2 m.
 

Shrimp. 5.5 m.