Dive 060
| Date | Jan 11, 2002-11:14 AM |
| Location: | Anemone City, Flinders Reef - Coral Sea, Australia |
| Dive Shop | Mike Ball |
| Purpose | Recreation - search for clown fish |
| Buddy | Mark Robinson |
| Exposure Suit | 3mm |
| Other Equipment | video - no special lens |
| Weight | 12 |
| Viz | 150 |
| Max Depth | 68 |
| Start Air | 2900 |
| End Air | 420 |
| EAN | 0 |
| Minutes Under | 38 |
| Surface Interval | 142 |
| Remarks |
In the dive brief, the instructor prophesise a glorious place. He spoke of a place where the coral was luch with anemones and clown fish. On our first journey through this great dive site we were unable to find this place before we had to come back up. That dive revealed some cuddlefish, making it a good dive. But our hearts still yearned for the namesake of this dive site.
From the map given to us by Brad we had an idea where to go. The anemone was west of the tallest coral (which conviently had a line with a white float tied to it). Upon hitting the water we made a straight swim to this coral. This swim was done a few feet below the surface in order to avoid the demon waves.
The coral mound was still there, making the reference point real easy. But hey, where would that mound have gone in the past hour? Once we hit the tall coral mound, we swam around it looking for the anemones. I found a small patch (which I had seen an the previous dive). I pointed this out to Mark and he had a field day taking pctures. I didn't want to film this patch for two reasons: I had filmed it on the previous dive, and Mark was taking pics and I didn't want to get film with his flash in it. While he was filming I dropped down another twenty feet (around 60 feet), and explored the area down there. While I was down there (doing nothing special) Andrew and Marry swam by and showed me an octopus. I didn't know what they were pointing at at first, but after they left I saw the octopus. I shot some footage of the creature, hopeing to get some good stuff. The footage turned out too blue for my tastes (I should have used the lights because there was not enough strong sun light to illuminate that depth). The octopus wasn't doing anything special, just chilling in some coral holes. I still enjoyed watching the creature and I was intrigued to find it watching me as closely as I watched it.
After shooting a decent amount of film, Mark started to wander from the patch of anemone. I motioned for him to come to me, but he was having problems with a head ache. He went up to the top of a coral formation and found what we were looking for. The prophesies of Brad had come true, we had reached the fabled anemone patch.
The anemone and clown fish work together.
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