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  • Nº233 # Date: 2023-06-21 - 11:00
  • # Max Depth: 30.4m Duration: 60mins
Diver's Notes

Zodiac and drift back to boat, Dropped on North Plateau but current meant guide decided to abandoned as current meant group struggled to maintain. As buddy team we descended to Gorgonian to find the Long nosed Hawkfish while rest of group drifted. Two spotted one adult and one Juvenile.
Reef on right hand side, drifted with current and caught up to group. Crabs in corals, Barracuda and tevely. Lois once again joined as buddy had finished dive so was left on own.

Dive Profile
Dive Location

  • Surface interval:214 mins
  • Temp: Surf 30°C Bottom 27°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Deep dive, Drift, Reef, Photo, 2023 Red Sea Liveaboard Project Shark
  • Visibility: Excellent Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • BCD: Cressi Sub - Ultralight
  • Boots: Cressi Sub - Isla
  • Camera: Gopro - Hero 10 Black
  • Camera: Olympus - Tough TG6
  • Computer: Suunto - D5
  • Fins: Atomic Aquatics - Split Fins
  • Light: Sealife - Seadragon 2500 Lumen x2
  • Mask: Atomic Aquatics - Venom Blue
  • Other: AquaTec - Dive Alert V2
  • Other: Suunto - Tank Pod
  • Weights: 2 kg
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  • Dive buddies: Chris Harman
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Trimix 31/15
  • 15L Steel     209 → 44 bar
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  • Average depth: 14.5m
Data provided by EOL.org

Species Identified

Oxycirrhites typus Bleeker, 1857 (Longnose hawkfish)
Iciligorgia schrammi Duchassaing, 1870 (black sea fan)
Sphyraena jello Cuvier, 1829 (Pickhandle barracuda) Found near prominent current-swept lagoon or seaward reefs ; also in bays, estuaries and turbid inner lagoons . Diurnal and solitary, although the young form schools. Feeds mainly on fishes but also takes squid. Sold fr...
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Carangoides armatus (Rüppell, 1830) (Longfin trevally) Found in coastal waters near corals and rocks, also in shallow lagoons . Solitary species on inshore reefs . Juveniles may enter estuaries .

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