Dive Details

Location

Date

16 March, 2014

Time

6:44pm - 7:54pm

Details

The third dive of the Bali was a night dive off the beach at Pemuteran. Just in from the beach on the sand were a number of artificial structures that had been seeded as artificial reefs. We swam around and past the structures and also around some natural reefs and then came back to the shallows.

When I came across the sea pen I thought I could see a crab or something in it but wasn't sure. It was only when I looked at the photos that I could be sure there was one there and I wished I'd got some better shots. The flatworm was pretty cool, too.

Buddy

Landung

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

68 minutes

Maximum depth

17.9 m

Average depth

8.1 m

Water temperature

28.3°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.

Flathead. 9.7 m.
 

Euphyllid stony coral. 11.4 m.
 

Day octopus, Octopus cyanea. 12.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllidiella pustulosa. 12.9 m.
 

Feeding tentacles of a sea cucumber, Euapta godeffroyi. 12.8 m.
 

Banded coral shrimp, Stenopus hispidus. 12.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris kunei. 14.4 m.
 

Stony coral, Lobophyllia sp. 8.9 m.
 

Sea pen with commensal crab. 9.9 m.
 

Sea pen with commensal crab. 10 m.
 

Shrimp, Urocaridella antonbruunii. 7.2 m.
 

Tiger cowrie, Cypraea tigris. 6.9 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 6.7 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 6.8 m.
 

Polyclad flatworm, Pseudobiceros flowersi. 3.4 m.
 

Polyclad flatworm, Pseudobiceros flowersi. 3.1 m.
 

Polyclad flatworm, Pseudobiceros flowersi. 3.2 m.
 

Mantis shrimp, Lysiosquillina maculata. 2 m.