Dive Details

Location

Date

Friday 10 July 2015

Time

10:07am - 10:46am

Details

Dive with The Dive Academy. Chumphon Pinnacles is situated around 11 kilometres north west of Koh Tao and consists of one large main pinnacle with several more smaller ones surrounding it, rising from depths of around 35 to 15 meters.

We jumped in and our guide, Diver Dan, took as around over a number of the pinnacles. I was a bit disappointed with the small number of different species and I would learn on the other dives that this is what the Gulf of Thailand is like. We only saw two species of butterflyfish and one species of angelfish. There were no dwarf angelfish at all. There was one species of anemonefish and only a few wrasse species. There were some impressively large grouper, though, that were just hanging around.

The dive was quite short due to small tanks, poor fills and we were grouped with a relatively new diver.

Buddy

Sheree Rose

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

15-20 metres

Duration

39 minutes

Maximum depth

24.6 m

Average depth

14.5 m

Water temperature

30.2°C

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.

Panda butterflyfish, Chaetodon wiebeli. 16.9 m.
 

Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 23 m.
 

Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 17.5 m.
 

Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 14.8 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 15.5 m.
 

Pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion. 14.1 m.