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  • Nº185 # Date: 2025-10-04 - 10:49
  • # Max Depth: 30.8m Duration: 76mins
Diver's Notes

1st dive 2 tanker aboard FHY
Mansud Wall start ahead of group long swim almost to Dadatan Corner boat pick up
Multilevel, some solo

Dive Profile
Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 28°C Bottom 28°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef, Photo, Wall
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • BCD: Scubapro - Glide Plus
  • Boots: Orca - Dive shoes
  • Camera: Olympus - TG6
  • Compass:
  • Fins: Atomic Aquatics - Blade Fins
  • Fins: Scubapro - Jet Fins
  • Mask: Promate - Scope
  • Regulator: SEAC - Synchro
  • Wet suit: Blue Ocean - Diveskin
  • Weights: 3.2 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 10L Aluminium     207 → 24 bar
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  • Average depth: 20.5m
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Species Identified

Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacepède, 1801) (Cheeklined wrasse) Inhabits lagoon and sheltered seaward reefs in coral rich areas . Possibly to 120 m depths. Young is more inshore on sheltered reef crests or slopes, usually amongst soft corals or stinging hydrozoans . Feeds on hard-sh...
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Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura (Bleeker, 1851) (Blueside wrasse) Forms aggregations 1 to 2 m above coral or rocky bottoms along edges of lagoon, channel, and outer reef slopes. Feeds on zooplankton in the water column. Sometimes form large schools .
Halichoeres hortulanus (Lacepède, 1801) (Checkerboard wrasse)
Halichoeres prosopeion (Bleeker, 1853) (Twotone wrasse) Inhabits lagoon and seaward reefs, in coral-rich areas . Also found along drop-offs on the bottom of large caves. Usually seen solitary .
Stethojulis trilineata (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Threeline rainbowfish) Often found on exposed reefs with shallow clear water. Usually swim in loose groups along upper parts of drop-offs or above reef crests .
Coris gaimard (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (dahlia) Found in areas of mixed coral, sand and rubble of exposed outer reef flats, lagoon and seaward reefs . Benthopelagic . Feeds mainly on mollusks, crabs, and hermit crabs, and occasionally on tunicates and forams .
Halichoeres chrysus Randall, 1981 (Canary wrasse) Found at the reef edge, in sand and rubble areas .
Priacanthus macracanthus Cuvier, 1829 (Red bigeye) Occurs in inshore and offshore reefs from less than 20 m to more than 400 m depths. Apparently forms aggregations in open bottom areas and is very abundant in the South China Sea and Andaman Sea. Marketed fresh, whole. Sound production has been studied in this species.
Priacanthus blochii Bleeker, 1853 (Paeony bulleye) Occurs in lagoon and seaward reefs, under ledges or in caves by day ; often silty habitat . Rarely trawled .
Apogon trimaculatus Cuvier, 1828 (Three-spot cardinalfish) Inhabits inshore coral reefs . Nocturnal species .
Apogon multilineatus (Bleeker, 1874) (Many-lined cardinalfish) Found in deep and shallow lagoons with coral heads .
Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) (Red lionfish)
Dendrochirus zebra (Cuvier, 1829) (Zebra turkeyfish) Found on coral, rubble, or rock bottoms of reef flats ; also in coastal to outer reef habitats in sheltered lagoons and in caves, sometimes in small aggregations. Usually shallow, from 3-60m but also reported to 80 m dep...
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Scorpaenopsis papuensis (Cuvier, 1829) (Papuan scorpionfish) Found in coral and rocky areas to depths over 40 m ; also in coastal sand slopes, estuaries and lagoons, often in algae covered rubble zones .

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