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  • Nº88 # Date: 2009-03-23 - 14:10
  • # Max Depth: 17.1m Duration: 56mins
Diver's Notes

Swam along rope in bay round to wreck. Did 4 sweeps of wreck before returning to shore.

Dropped down to anchor and bottom of channel during dive.

Spotted: 2 x shy sharks, octopus, nudibranchs, musselcracker, steenbras, stingray, school of about 30 squid.

Wreck teaming with fish life like I've never seen before!

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  • Temp: Bottom 19°C
  • Dive type : Wreck
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 10 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 100 bar
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  • Average depth: 11.4m
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Species Identified

Lithognathus lithognathus (Cuvier, 1829) (White steenbras) This often solitary fish has a remarkable manner of feeding. To obtain its diet of shrimps, worms, small crabs, periwinkles and other molluscs, the white steenbras blows a strong jet of water into the burrow in which the ...
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Sparodon durbanensis (Castelnau, 1861) (Musselcracker seabream) Inhabits shallow coastal waters, mainly off rocky shores down to 80 m depth. Rarely enters estuaries. Young commonly found in tide pools. Feeds mainly on mollusks . An important food fish.
Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sting ray) Found over sandy and muddy bottoms, sometimes in estuaries and near rocky reefs . Feed on bottom fishes, crustaceans and mollusks. Ovoviviparous, gestation period about 4 months and 4-7 young are produced. Wings markete...
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