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  • Nº7 # Date: 2013-07-19 - 07:09
  • # Max Depth: 18.3m Duration: 42mins
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Amazing massive schools of fish!
So many colours- everything moving. Fucking spectacular.
Big school of giant barracuda, orange fusilier
AWESOMENESS

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  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef
  • Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 3.2 kg
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Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) (Hawaiian salmon)
Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale, 1905 (Barracuda) Found near prominent current-swept lagoons or seaward reefs . Also in bays and inner turbid lagoons . Nocturnally active, but occurring in relatively large schools during the day . Sold fresh or processed into fish cakes .
Caesio teres Seale, 1906 (Yellow and blueback fusilier) Found primarily around coral reefs, with a preference for coralline lagoons. Feeds on zooplankton in large midwater groups. Forms schools with other caesionids. Migrates to select areas around the reef to spawn near the...
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Gymnothorax meleagris (Shaw, 1795) (Guinea moray eel)
Cephalopholis argus Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (Grouper) A generally common species found in a variety of coral habitats from tide pools to depths of at least 40 m; prefers the 1 to 10 m reef zone. Juvenile prefers shallow, protected coral thickets . Benthic and benthopelagi...
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Stenopus hispidus (Olivier, 1811) (banded coral shrimp)

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