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  • Nº10 # Date: 2007-04-12 - 09:00
  • # Max Depth: 31.4m Duration: 37mins
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  • Temp: Surf 30°C Bottom 27°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef
  • Visibility: Excellent Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 6 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 0L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 20.9m
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Lepidochelys olivacea Eschscholtz 1829 (Olive Ridley Turtle) Although they do also nest alone, olive ridleys are known for their remarkable mass nestings, when many thousands of females congregate on the same beach; the event is known as an 'arribada', which is Spanish for 'mass arr...
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Gymnothorax fimbriatus (Bennett, 1832) (Fimbriated moray) Occurs in lagoons, reef flats and seaward reefs . Prefers protected inshore waters among dead corals, common in harbors and small caves . Probably nocturnal . Feeds on fishes and crustaceans . Possibly a protogynous hermaphrodite .
Gymnothorax buroensis (Bleeker, 1857) (Vagrant moray)
Sebastapistes cyanostigma (Bleeker, 1856) (Yellowspotted scorpionfish) Found in reef crests with rich coral growth . Typically found among the branches of Pocillopora corals in surge areas of seaward reefs . Also observed between the branches of the fire coral Millepora and Styllophora (Eran Brokovich, pers. comm. 03/02).

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