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  • Nº298 # Date: 2025-05-07 - 10:59
  • # Max Depth: 10m Duration: 48mins
Diver's Notes

Nice easy dive.
Exploring the shallows, 2 nurse sharks in low level overhang, green turtle (video) loggerhead turtle that I spotted - great video 2 min 30, lobsters, stingray, several morays. Drift dive from mooring as strong current at times)

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  • Surface interval:35 mins
  • Temp: Surf 23°C Bottom 23°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Drift, Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Regulator: Atomic Aquatics - SS1
  • Camera: TG6 Housing - Sea Frogs
  • Fins: Atomic Aquatics - Split Fins
  • Other: Atomic Aquatics - SV2 Snorkel
  • BCD: Cressi Sub - Ultralight
  • Boots: Cressi Sub - Isla
  • Camera: Olympus - Tough TG6
  • Camera: Gopro - Hero 10 Black
  • Computer: Suunto - D5
  • Mask: Atomic Aquatics - Venom Blue
  • Other: Suunto - Tank Pod
  • Light: Sealife - Seadragon 2500 Lumen x2
  • Regulator: Atomic Aquatics - Z3 DIN 1st and 2nd Stage on Swivel
  • Other: AquaTec - Dive Alert V2
  • Weights: 1 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 15L Steel     191 → 81 bar
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  • Average depth: 6.4m
  • SAC: 1.41 bar/min
  • RMV: 21.15 L/min
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Species Identified

Caretta caretta Linnaeus 1758 (Loggerhead Turtle) Adults are primarily carnivorous, using their powerful jaws to crack open crustaceans such as crabs and even seemingly impenetrable molluscs such as the queen conch (Strombus gigas) and giant clam (Tridacna s...
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Ginglymostoma cirratum (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Nurse shark) During the day the nurse shark is a sluggish animal, spending most of its time resting on sandy bottoms, or in crevices in rocks and coral reefs. Often several nurse sharks may congregate when resting, sometimes even pili...
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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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Nephropsis atlantica Norman, 1882 (scarlet lobsterette)
Raja radula Delaroche, 1809 (Rough ray) Range from coastal waters to about 300 m depth . Feed on all kinds of bottom animals . Oviparous. Distinct pairing with embrace. Young may tend to follow large objects, such as their mother . Eggs are oblong capsules ...
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Gymnothorax afer Bloch, 1795 (Dark moray) Inhabits rocky bottoms .
Muraena melanotis (Kaup, 1860) (Honeycomb moray) Lives in shallow rocky bottoms and feeds mainly on crustaceans .

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