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  • Nº75 # Date: 2012-08-04 - 05:02
  • # Max Depth: 18.3m Duration: 55mins
Diver's Notes

Choppy 0 clouds started moving in for a storm tonight, so we lost our sunshine. Good drift, 3 different types of turtles, with hawksbill being brought on deck for monitoring. Met guy from University of Florida that monitors this endangered specie by filming them in their environment, then measuring, tagging and recording with photos before returning them to same spot he locates them. Very cool, and first time to see one this close. Connie also found a guys lost computer and seveal lobsters.
Hawksbill was teenager - estimated to be 24-25 years of age and most likley his last year in West Palm before heading back to the Yucatan to start raising babies.

Dive Profile
Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 30°C Bottom 29°C
  • Dive type : Training, Drift, Reef, Boat - AOW - Nitrox
  • Visibility: Excellent Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Weights: 5.9 kg
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Dive Shop & Buddies
  • Dive buddies: Connie Wilson
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  • 1. Air
  • 10L Aluminium     207 → 52 bar
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  • Average depth: 12.2m
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Species Identified

Caretta caretta Linnaeus 1758 (Loggerhead Turtle) Adults are primarily carnivorous, using their powerful jaws to crack open crustaceans such as crabs and even seemingly impenetrable molluscs such as the queen conch (Strombus gigas) and giant clam (Tridacna s...
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Chelonia mydas Linnaeus 1758 (Green Turtle) Green turtles are long-lived and may take up to 59 years to reach sexual maturity Undertaking tremendous feats of navigation, adults return to the same beach to breed each season, part of the population in Brazil astonish...
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Eretmochelys imbricata (LINNAEUS) 1766 (Hawksbill Turtle) Hawksbills may take decades to mature and it could be between 20 to 40 years before they are ready to breed . Upon reaching sexual maturity, a female will typically lay up to five clutches of around 100 to 140 eggs in one ...
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Panulirus regius De Brito Capello, 1864 (royal spiny lobster)

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