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  • Nº302 # Date: 2025-05-10 - 11:15
  • # Max Depth: 18.3m Duration: 51mins
Diver's Notes

Nice dive, recovered some ghost fishing line on dive,
Large Nudi, fireworms, swam with turtle, large scorpionfish and octopus.
Guide removed hook from fish mouth underwater. Stingrays, descended over wreck and spotted multiple crabs

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  • Surface interval:30 mins
  • Temp: Surf 26°C Bottom 23°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Drift, Wreck, 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     206 → 68 bar
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  • Average depth: 9.3m
  • SAC: 1.41 bar/min
  • RMV: 21.15 L/min
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Species Identified

Haliphron atlanticus Steenstrup, 1861 (Octopus)
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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Hermodice carunculata (Pallas, 1766) (bearded fireworm)
Parascorpaena mcadamsi (Fowler, 1938) (McAdam's scorpionfish) Secretive in reefs during the day and usually seen only at night .
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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