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  • Nº7 # Date: 2014-07-04 - 18:49
  • # Max Depth: 17m Duration: 41mins
Diver's Notes

Night dive! Saw Hawskbill Turtle for the first time, awoke from underneath the rock, swam to the surface to take a few breaths of air, then descended back down to its sleeping spot.

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  • Temp: Bottom 30°C
  • Dive type : Night dive, AA - Night
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 3 kg
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Taeniura lymma (Forsskål, 1775) (Bluespotted ribbontail ray) Blue-spotted stingrays live alone or in small groups , migrating in large schools into shallow sandy areas on the rising tide in order to feed, and dispersing back into the ocean as the tide falls to shelter in the coral c...
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Balistoides viridescens (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Titan triggerfish) Occur in lagoon, seaward reefs and sheltered inner reef slopes . Juveniles often associated with isolated patches of branching coral or rubble of shallow sandy protected areas. Adults occur singly or in pairs on the slo...
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Lophodiodon calori (Bianconi, 1854) (Four-bar porcupinefish) Continental shelves to 100 m . Adults benthic, juveniles pelagic . Presumably feeds on hard-shelled invertebrates . Not usually marketed . Not a common species .
Eretmochelys imbricata (LINNAEUS) 1766 (Hawksbill Turtle) Hawksbills may take decades to mature and it could be between 20 to 40 years before they are ready to breed . Upon reaching sexual maturity, a female will typically lay up to five clutches of around 100 to 140 eggs in one ...
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