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  • Nº34 # Date: 2009-05-05 - 13:00
  • # Max Depth: 23m Duration: 50mins
Diver's Notes

Manta Ray as soon as we jumped in, really lucky, loads of colourful yellow fish on this dive and some cool swim throughs in between the boulders. Lots of purple puffer fish

Not much coral but a nice dive with two swiss girls and and English guide Zoe

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  • Temp: Surf 32°C Bottom 28°C
  • Dive type : Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 5 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 15.3m
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Species Identified

Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868) (Resident manta ray) This species is commonly sighted inshore, within a few kilometers of land; found around coral and rocky reefs as well as along productive coastlines with consistent upwelling, tropical island groups, atolls and bays .
Arothron meleagris (Lacepède, 1798) ('opu hue)
Arothron nigropunctatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Blackspotted puffer) Inhabit coastal to outer reef crest and slopes with rich invertebrate growth. Adults often in pairs . Feed on corals , crustaceans, mollusks, sponges, tunicates and algae . Generally common .
Canthigaster bennetti (Bleeker, 1854) (Bennett's sharpnose puffer) Inhabits inner reef flats and sheltered lagoons. A common inshore species, often on algal or silty reefs and among attached Sargassum on shallow rubble flats . Feeds mainly on filamentous green algae and to a lesser exte...
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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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