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  • Nº300 # Date: 2025-05-08 - 10:37
  • # Max Depth: 17.9m Duration: 50mins
Diver's Notes

Nice dive, strong current, descended on mooring line and then did a drift dive. Ended up drifting across 3 dive sites. Nursery sharks, stingrays, morays lobsters and crabs

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  • Surface interval:43 mins
  • Temp: Surf 23°C Bottom 22°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Drift, Cave, 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     205 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 12.2m
  • SAC: 1.4 bar/min
  • RMV: 21.0 L/min
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Species Identified

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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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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Nephropsis atlantica Norman, 1882 (scarlet lobsterette)

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