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  • Nº266 # Date: 2024-08-26 - 11:19
  • # Max Depth: 14.4m Duration: 31mins
Diver's Notes

PADI Rescue Diver Course (Check Dive)
Familiarising with locations for rescue course, spotted 2 Eagle Rays and Pipefish. Shore dive. left shore for protected area, headed out and along over a couple of reefs and outcrops. Headed left towards some underwater objects, pyramid had multiple lionfish species. Next object was a dolphin. Headed back and surfaced to begin first part of course and confined water.

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  • Temp: Surf 30°C Bottom 29°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Training, Reef
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Regulator: Atomic Aquatics - SS1
  • Fins: Atomic Aquatics - Split Fins
  • Other: Atomic Aquatics - SV2 Snorkel
  • BCD: Cressi Sub - Ultralight
  • Boots: Cressi Sub - Isla
  • Computer: Suunto - D5
  • Mask: Atomic Aquatics - Venom Blue
  • Other: Suunto - Tank Pod
  • Regulator: Atomic Aquatics - Z3 DIN 1st and 2nd Stage on Swivel
  • Weights: 4 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Nitrox 32
  • 12L Steel     205 → 120 bar
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  • Average depth: 7.3m
  • SAC: 1.59 bar/min
  • RMV: 19.08 L/min
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Species Identified

Aetomylaeus vespertilio (Bleeker, 1852) (Ornate eagle ray) Found in muddy bays and banks and on coral reefs from close inshore to 110 m depth . Ovoviviparous . Caught in bottom trawls, gillnets, seines, and fish traps . Utilized for its meat and cartilage (possibly used as "filler" in shark fin soups as with other large eagle rays) .

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