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  • Nº22 # Date: 2020-11-15 - 14:03
  • # Max Depth: 23.2m Duration: 35mins
Diver's Notes

Shark dive! Used a wet suit to protect skin from aggressive triggerfish. Apparently they had a nest nearby. I counted 8 sharks at once, someone else counted 9.Other fish might have been tarpon?

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Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 29°C Bottom 29°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Photo, Sharks
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Wet suit:
  • BCD: Cressi - Ultra Light
  • Camera: SeaLife - Micro 3.0
  • Computer: Cressi - Newton
  • Fins: Cressi -
  • Light: SeaLife - SeaDragon 3000F
  • Mask: Cressi - Big Eyes
  • Regulator: Cressi -
  • Weights: 10.9 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Nitrox 31
  • 15L Aluminium     207 → 48 bar
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  • Average depth: 15.4m
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Species Identified

Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common remora) Usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships ; found in gill chambers, fins and body surface . Sometimes free-swimming . Younger individual is more active as parasite pickers . Feeds on parasitic copepods .
Carcharhinus leucas (Müller and Henle, 1839) (Bullshark) The biology of the bull shark is still little known but it shows extraordinary physiological adaptations that allow it to persist in both freshwater and saltwater. Bull sharks have been captured in places you would never ...
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Balistes capriscus Gmelin, 1789 (gray triggerfish)

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