Pirate Bear
Malta
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Nº506
Date: 2013-05-17 - 09:00
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Max Depth: 20m Duration: 51mins
Dive Location
- Dive type : Recreational, Wreck
- Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
- Light: Gibielle - Tritone
- Mask: Oceanic - Shadow
- Weights: 8 kg
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Dive Profile
- 1. Air
- 15L Steel 200 → 80 bar
- Average depth: 13.3m
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Species Identified
Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean barracuda)
Found in coastal and offshore waters . Feeds mostly on fish, less often on cephalopods and crustaceans .
Diplodus annularis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Annular seabream)
Inhabit chiefly Zostera seagrass beds but also found on Posidonia beds and sandy bottoms, rarely on rocky bottoms. Carnivorous, feed on worms, crustaceans, mollusks, echinoderms and hydrozoans. The sexes are separated, a...
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Chromis chromis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean chromis)
Form small shoals in midwater above or near rocky reefs or above seagrass meadows (Posidonia. Feed on small planktonic or benthic animals . Reproduce in summer . Eggs characterised by adhesive filaments are nested on rocky or sandy bottoms . Males guard the eggs .
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Final dive on the Um El Faroud. Not much to say about this dive except that it was awesome! Spent about half an hour watching the 50+ strong shoal of barracuda hunting around the wheelhouse.... absolutely amazing stuff. Check out the videos!
What a great way to finish a brilliant trip.