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  • Nº17 # Date: 2013-08-02 - 11:26
  • # Max Depth: 19.2m Duration: 34mins
Diver's Notes

Observed: Various grouper 5+, Blue/Queen?? Angel x1, Baitfish x1000+, Toadfish? x2, Beaugregory 10+, Barracuda x1.

Notes on dive: USS Strength, 1ft waves, Had 14lbs of weight was just about right, perhaps a little overweight.

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  • Temp: Bottom 25°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Wreck
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Boots: Neosport - 5mm size 11
  • Computer: Mares - Puck
  • Dive skin: Neosport - XL
  • Fins: Cressi Sub - Pro Light Open Heel LXL
  • Hood: Billabong -
  • Mask: Deep See - Single Lense Clear
  • Other: SMB - 6ft Safety Sausage Manual inflate
  • BCD: Aeris - Ex 100
  • Regulator: Oceanic - GT3
  • Regulator: Sea Elite - SX 30 Octopus
  • Other: Sea Elite - Slimline 2 Console
  • Weights: 6.8 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 10L Aluminium     207 → 21 bar
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  • Average depth: 12.8m
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Species Identified

Epinephelus striatus (Bloch, 1792) (Nassau grouper) Adults are generally solitary, with the exception of spawning events when hundreds to thousands of individuals were known to group together. In the southern extent of the grouper's range, these awesome aggregations occurre...
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Mycteroperca microlepis (Goode & Bean, 1879) (Gag grouper) Juveniles occur in estuaries and seagrass beds; adults are usually found offshore on rocky bottom , occasionally inshore on rocky or grassy bottom. It is the most common grouper on rocky ledges in the eastern Gulf of Mexi...
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Opsanus beta (Goode and Bean, 1880) (Gulf toadfish) Commonly found in seagrass beds and rocky cuts in coastal bays and lagoons, and in shallows along open coast. In western coast of Florida, adults spawn in February and March . Nesting males produce grunt calls called the...
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Holacanthus ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (queen angelfish) Found on coral reefs. Generally occurs solitarily or in pairs. Moves gracefully between seafans, seawhips, and corals . Stomach contents of 26 specimens indicate that the species feeds almost exclusively on sponges supp...
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Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832) (Barracuda)
Lagodon rhomboides (Linnaeus, 1766) (Porgy)
Ocyurus chrysurus (Bloch, 1791) (yellowtail snapper)
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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