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  • Nº7 # Date: 2011-09-07 - 09:00
  • # Max Depth: 24.5m Duration: 58mins
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Advanced Open Water Dive #1

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  • Dive type : Recreational, Training, Deep dive
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 7 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     190 → 30 bar
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  • Average depth: 16.3m
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Species Identified

Dentex dentex (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common dentex) Inhabit hard bottoms down to 200 m depth. Usually found in shallow water less than 50 m deep . Adults solitary; young gregarious . Young fish caught with traps. Feed on fish, mollusks and cephalopods. Important food ...
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Anthias anthias (Linnaeus, 1758) (Swallowtail seaperch) Lives amongst rocks, gravel, coral and in submarine caves on the continental shelf and upper slope. Nocturnal. Feeds on crustaceans and small fishes. Protogynous.
Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ornate wrasse) Inhabits coastal waters near rocks and eel-grass beds. Usually solitary, sometimes in small groups. Feeds on small mollusks and crustaceans . Protogynous hermaphrodite, with distinct sexual dichromatism . Eggs are pelagic .
Muraena helena Linnaeus, 1758 (Mediterranean moray) A nocturnal and territorial species , commonly lurking in holes, and writhing snakelike through crevices, under rocks or corals. Feeds on fish, crabs and squid . It seldom attacks unless provoked . A gonochoristic speci...
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Halichoeres margaritaceus (Valenciennes, 1839) (Pink-belly wrasse) Inhabits shallow reefs and rocky shores, usually in weedy areas exposed to surge . Feeds on benthic crustaceans, mollusks, polychaetes, forams, fishes, and fish eggs . One of several similar species that have near identical juvenile and female stages .
Ophiura albida Forbes, 1839 (brittlestar) O. albida has separate sexes, external fertilization and pelagic larvae. The maximum age is estimated at 3 years. This shortlived species shows a relatively fast-growing strategy. O. albida may be particularl...
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