Dive Details

Location

Date

25 February, 2013

Time

7:21am - 8:23am

Details

The 16th dive of the Raja Ampat trip in February 2013 on board the S/Y Indo Siren. Nudi Rock is so named not because there are lots of nudibranchs there but because it looks like... well... a nudibranch. I'm kicking myself that I didn't take a photograph. It was a low rocky island that was sort of long. It had two trees at one end (the rhinophores) and a bunch of trees at the other end (gills).

There was a fair amount of current on this dive and I went through my air quite quickly. I did manage to find another Hippocampus denise which pleased me greatly.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight but a bt of current

Visibility

25 metres

Duration

62 minutes

Maximum depth

27.1 m

Average depth

15.4 m

Water temperature

28.9°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.

Coral cod, Cephalopholis miniata. 14.3 m.
 

Clown triggerfish, Balistoides conspicillum. -6.8 m.
 

Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator. 17.9 m.
 

Peacock mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus. 21.4 m.
 

Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator. 24.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllidiopsis shireenae. 22.6 m.
 

Denise's pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus denise. 20.1 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 5.1 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 5.2 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 5.4 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 5.2 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 3.7 m.
 

Hydracoral, Distichopora sp. 1.4 m.
 

Black anemonefish, Amphiprion melanopus. 3.7 m.