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  • Nº127 # Date: 2012-09-05 - 21:48
  • # Max Depth: 16.5m Duration: 59mins
Diver's Notes

The best night dive to date and potentially the best dive to date. This was a black water dive where we left at 2100 and went three (3) miles out into the ocean, tethered ourselves to a boat, and drifted back to shore. It was like being in space. The depth was 5000ft below us and everything was black. I saw all the things that glow in the night. Venus girdle, seahorse, squid, weird glowing jellies. We even heard dolphins. I want/need to do this again.

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  • Dive type : recreational, night dive, drift, Black Water
  • Temp: Surf 27°C Bottom 25°C
  • Visibility: Excellent Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Weights: 5 Kg
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  • Dive buddies: Paul Myrick
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  • Tank nº1
  • Aluminium, 10L
  • AIR mix
  • Pressure: start: 208bar
    end: 67bar
  • SAC: 1.12 bar/min
  • RMV: 10.752 L/min
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Species Identified

Cestum veneris Lesueur, 1813 (venus girdle)
Hippocampus reidi Ginsburg, 1933 (Slender sea horse) Uncommon in most areas, but may be locally common in certain places. Usually attached to gorgonians or seagrasses but may occur in floating Sargassum or swimming freely in midwater . Ovoviviparous . The male carries the...
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Batoteuthis skolops Young and Roper, 1968 (Oceanic squid)

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