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  • Nº16 # Date: 2008-01-09 - 10:00
  • # Max Depth: 23m Duration: 48mins
Diver's Notes

Small rocky outcrop that sticks out of the water, with a coral outcrops on the side of the rocks, nice coral and we saw three leopard/ zebra sharks and a couple of turtles, banded sea snakes and some scorpion fish.

Nice dive but way too many divers on the boat 20 +.

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  • Surface interval:80 mins
  • Temp: Surf 32°C Bottom 28°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 5 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     205 → 65 bar
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  • Average depth: 15.3m
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Species Identified

Stegostoma fasciatum (Hermann, 1783) (zebra shark) These sharks are mostly solitary but can occasionally be found in aggregations of 20 to 50 individuals . Believed to be a nocturnal hunter, they spend most of the day lazily swimming and resting on the bottom , becoming a...
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Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833 (Bayad)
Scorpaenopsis diabolus (Cuvier, 1829) (False stonefish) Relatively an uncommon inhabitant of rubble or weedy coralline-rock bottoms of reef flats and lagoon and seaward reefs . Benthic . Flashes its inner pectoral fins when disturbed . Can inflict a painful injury with its venomous dorsal sting. Often partly buried .

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