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  • Nº160 # Date: 2025-01-05 - 11:02
  • # Max Depth: 22.3m Duration: 75mins
Diver's Notes

1st dive 2025, 1st of 2 tanker aboard Datu Budas
recent heavy rain, cloudy, cool, humid, small chop
drop in offshore Sol del Sur Resort , dive around house reef, back to boat
multilevel

Dive Profile
Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 26°C Bottom 26°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • BCD: Scubapro - Glide Plus
  • Boots: Orca - Dive shoes
  • Camera: Olympus - TG6
  • Computer: Oceanic - OCS
  • Fins: Scubapro - Jet Fins
  • Knife: Scuba MAx - folding
  • Lift bag: ScubaMax - SMB
  • Light: Sofirn - SD05
  • Mask: Promate - Scope
  • Regulator: Aqualung - Legend
  • Wet suit: Blue Ocean - Diveskin
  • Weights: 3.2 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 10L Aluminium     207 → 21 bar
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  • Average depth: 14.8m
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Species Identified

Gigantione pratti Danforth, 1967
Mesosignum latum Birstein, 1970
Munnopsurus ochotensis Gurjanova, 1933B
Ulakanthura colac Poore, 1978B
Paradella tuberculata Muller, 1991E
Macrochiridothea lilianae Moreira, 1973A
Limicolana dinjerra Bruce, 1986A
Bodianus axillaris (Bennett, 1832) (Axilspot hogfish) Inhabits clear lagoon and seaward reefs. Juveniles occur solitary in caves or under ledges and act as cleaners by picking at bodies of other fishes . Feeds mainly on benthic, hard-shelled, invertebrates such as mollusks...
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Bodianus mesothorax (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Splitlevel hogfish) Ranging into subtropical zones as juveniles expatriates caused by warm currents during pelagic stage . Inhabit coral-rich outer reef slopes at depths of 5 to over 20 m, particularly near caves. Juveniles in caves; adults...
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Bodianus diana (Lacepède, 1801) (Diana's hogfish) Found in coral rich areas of seaward reefs . Juveniles often shelter near black corals and gorgonians; also frequent cave ceilings . Feeds mainly on benthic invertebrates such as mollusks and crustaceans. Juveniles regularly remove parasites from other fishes .
Tautogolabrus adspersus (Walbaum, 1792) (Blue perch) Inhabits shallow, inshore waters, living on or near the bottom, often congregating in masses around wharves, wrecks and submerged seaweed. During winter they become torpid and remain inshore under rocks in shallow water .
Xenia actuosa Verseveldt & Tursch, 1979
Xenia elongata Dana, 1846
Xenia quinqueserta May, 1899
Xenia samoensis Kölliker
Sebastes chrysomelas (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881) (black-and-yellow rockfish) Inhabit holes and crevices in rocky areas . Found in intertidal areas and to 37 m . Viviparous .
Apogon erythrinus Snyder, 1904 (Ruby cardinalfish) Found in shallow water and observed to be active only at night, near the bottom, and never far from its shelter . Benthopelagic .
Sphaeramia nematoptera (Bleeker, 1856) (Pajama cardinalfish) Forms aggregations among the branches of Porites nigrescens and P. cylindrica in sheltered bays and lagoons . Disperses at night to feed close to the bottom . Has been reared in captivity . Popular aquarium fish .
Apogon angustatus (Smith & Radcliffe, 1911) (Striped cardinalfish) Commonly found in clear-waters of seaward reefs; on reef crests and slopes, where usually shallow, and along deep drop-offs to 25 m . Feeds on polychaetes and other small benthic invertebrates at night; cryptic under ledges or in holes by day .
Johnrandallia nigrirostris (Gill, 1862) (Blacknosed butterflyfish)
Chaetodon paucifasciatus Ahl, 1923 (Eritrean butterflyfish) Found over coral and rubble areas, in pairs or in small groups. Found to depths of 65 m . Feed on coral polyps, gorgonians, algae, polychaete worms and small crustaceans. Oviparous , monogamous . Form pairs during breed...
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Coradion melanopus (Cuvier, 1831) (Twospot coralfish) An extremely wary fish found in sheltered lagoons or exposed outer reefs; to a depth greater than 30 m . More common along drop-offs in the vicinity of sponges on which they feed . Oviparous . Form pairs during breeding .
Chaetodon adiergastos Seale, 1910 (Philippine butterflyfish) Inhabit coral reefs and occurs in pairs or groups, usually near soft coral . Juveniles solitary and found on shallow protected reefs or in estuaries . Oviparous . Form pairs during breeding . Have never been imported although they can be easily maintained in a tank.
Brissus brissus (Leske, 1778)
Acropora sarmentosa (Brook, 1892) zooxanthellate
Acropora subglabra (Brook, 1891) zooxanthellate
Acropora verweyi Veron and Wallace, 1984 zooxanthellate
Acropora azurea Veron and Wallace, 1984 zooxanthellate
Astreopora myriophthalma (Lamarck, 1816) (Starflower coral) zooxanthellate
Acropora squarrosa (Ehrenberg, 1834) zooxanthellate

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