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  • Nº68 # Date: 2023-02-26 - 12:42
  • # Max Depth: 21.9m Duration: 77mins
Diver's Notes

2 dive 2 tank boatt Datu Budas
mostly cloudy breezy calm, dark, chalky UW
multilevel 1:20 SI
Drop in at buoy just N of CGBR, swim North, lst other groups, try to reverse back to better viz with Cesar, then lost Cesar.
Solo swim in shallows 35-40ft back to boat
Many Chromodoris nudis and LARGE 3-4 ft barracuda seen on way back to boat

Dive Profile
Dive Location

  • Surface interval:80 mins
  • Temp: Surf 26°C Bottom 26°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Drift, Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • BCD: Oceanic - OceanPro
  • Boots: Orca - Dive shoes
  • Camera: Olympus - TG6
  • Computer: Oceanic - OCS
  • Fins: Scubapro - Jet Fins
  • Knife: Scuba MAx - folding
  • Lift bag: ScubaMax - SMB
  • Light: Sealife - SL980
  • Light: Sofirn - SD05
  • Mask: Promate - Scope
  • Regulator: Aqua Lung - Legend LX
  • Regulator: Aqualung - Titan LX
  • Wet suit: Blue Ocean - Diveskin
  • Weights: 3.2 kg
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  • Dive with Blake Auge
  • Dive buddies: Cesar
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 10L Aluminium     207 → 34 bar
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  • Average depth: 14.6m
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Species Identified

Sphyraena viridensis Cuvier, 1829 (Barracuda) Its habits are probably similar to those of the phylogenetically closely related Sphyraena sphyraena . Feeds on cephalopods, crustaceans and fishes. Caught in trammel nets and beach seines .
Sphyraena argentea Girard, 1854 (Pacific barracuda)
Sphyraena lucasana Gill, 1863 (Barracuda)
Suezichthys gracilis (Steindachner and Döderlein, 1887) (Slender wrasse) Found around coral and rock patches in shallow protected sandy areas . Amphipods, small crustaceans, and polychaetes have been reported from the stomachs of Japanese specimens.
Novaculichthys taeniourus (Lacepède, 1801) (Rockmover wrasse)
Pteragogus guttatus (Fowler and Bean, 1928) (Sneaky wrasse) Found in sheltered inner reefs amongst broken coral and rubble. Usually seen in less than 10 m depth, staying well hidden in reefs, but sometimes swimming amongst the long-spined Diadema urchins or in thick algae coverage .
Plectroglyphidodon randalli Allen, 1991 (Mauritian damsel) Inhabits rocky inshore reefs exposed to wave action.
Stegastes leucostictus (Müller & Troschel, 1848) (Yellow-belly) Occurs in seagrass beds, coral or rocky reefs and sandy areas. Also found around mangrove shores and sponge beds; less common on flourishing coral reefs . Remains within 50 cm from the substrate. Adults feed on algae, p...
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Chromodoris magnifica (Quoy & Gaimard 1832) (Magnificent Chromodoris)

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