Dive Details
Location
Date
19 March, 2014
Time
9:46am - 10:43am
Details
This was our first dive at Amed. We were taken out in very narrow outrigger boats with very old, rusty motors and long propeller shafts and dropped over a vast sand flat. We could see snake eels on the sand flat in all directions.
We swam over the sand flat until we hit the reef. Initially, the reef was artificial and then we swam past natural reef. The highlight of the dive was the resident giant anglerfish and the tiny Moyer's dragonet which I didn't realise was a fish until I looked at my photographs.
Buddy
Landung
Seas
Slight
Visibility
20-25 metres
Duration
56 minutes
Maximum depth
20.3 m
Average depth
13.0 m
Water temperature
29.7°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.
Nudibranch, Phyllidiella pustulosa. 14.5 m.
Blue sea star, Linckia laevigata. 17.3 m.
Peacock mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus. 19.4 m.
Peacock mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus. 19.4 m.
Pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus bargibanti. 18.7 m.
Giant anglerfish, Antennarius commerson. 19.8 m.
Giant anglerfish, Antennarius commerson. 20 m.
Giant anglerfish, Antennarius commerson. 20 m.
Hydrocoral, Distichopora sp. 18.6 m.
Nudibranch, Nembrotha kubaryana. 18.2 m.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 9.8 m.
Clark's anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii. 9.3 m.
Nudibranch, Phyllidia varicosa. 13.6 m.
Variable throny oyster, Spondylus varians. 12.6 m.
Hermit crab. 12.3 m.
Moyer's dragonet, Synchiropus moyeri. 8.3 m.
Nudibranch, Phyllidiella pustulosa. 6.8 m.
Giant moray, Gymnothorax javanicus. 4.9 m.
Spotted boxfish, Ostracion meleagris. 4.6 m.
Pearlscale angelfish, Centropyge vrolikii. 4.4 m.