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  • Nº56 # Date: 2023-01-08 - 10:20
  • # Max Depth: 20.4m Duration: 80mins
Diver's Notes

1st boat dives 2023
Marisa and Bings
COLD, WINDY, overcast thick clouds, heavy chop
Drop in around to the right back on top, back to boat
multilevel
chilly dark water

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: Canon - Powershot SD780
  • Computer: Oceanic - OCS
  • Fins: Scubapro - Jet Fins
  • Knife: Scuba MAx - folding
  • Lift bag: ScubaMax - SMB
  • Light: Sofirn - SD05
  • Mask: Promate - Scope
  • Regulator: Aqualung - Titan LX
  • Wet suit: Blue Ocean - Diveskin
  • Weights: 3.2 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 10L Aluminium     207 → 28 bar
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  • Average depth: 13.6m
Data provided by EOL.org

Species Identified

Parascorpaena mcadamsi (Fowler, 1938) (McAdam's scorpionfish) Secretive in reefs during the day and usually seen only at night .
Sebastiscus marmoratus (Cuvier, 1829) (Filefish) Found near shore, on rock bottom . Commercially cultured in Japan. Viviparous . Anterolateral glandular grooves with venom gland .
Protemblemaria perla Hastings, 2001 (tube-blenny)
Cephalopholis sonnerati (Valenciennes, 1828) (Red coral rod) Occurs in deep lagoon reefs and steep outer reef slopes; encountered in coastal areas with rocky substrates. Juveniles are usually found near sponges or coral heads . Adults usually at moderate depths with bommies with l...
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Halichoeres semicinctus (Ayres, 1859) (rock wrasse)
Stegastes variabilis (Castelnau, 1855) (yellow demoiselle) Inhabits inshore and offshore coral reefs. Adults feed mainly on benthic algae but also on sponges, ascidians and anemones while juvenile feed on invertebrates like harpacticoid copepods and nemerteans . Often solitary ....
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Stegastes partitus (Poey, 1868) (bicolor damselfish) Inhabits shallow coral reefs and isolated patch reefs in deeper water. Feeds primarily on algae but also on polychaetes, hydroids, copepods and ascidians . Aggressively territorial but only around a small area . Taken incidentally in traps and small-meshed beach nets .
Acropora striata (Verrill, 1866) zooxanthellate
Acropora subglabra (Brook, 1891) zooxanthellate
Acropora azurea Veron and Wallace, 1984 zooxanthellate
Acropora verweyi Veron and Wallace, 1984 zooxanthellate

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