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  • Nº86 # Date: 2013-08-05 - 09:25
  • # Max Depth: 25.6m Duration: 59mins
Diver's Notes

Es una inmersion al revés que la de ferranelles, de hecho hemos llegado a la otra boya. No me encontraba muy agusto. Pero la inmersión ha estado bien. mucho mero cazando en un banco de peces. Gorgonias, y la fauna haitual de las mades.

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Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 24°C Bottom 18°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Photo
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Boots: Subacqua -
  • Computer: Mares - nemo instructor
  • Fins: Cressi Sub -
  • Dive skin: Seac Sub - nature fit
  • Lift bag: Cressi Sub - aqua ride
  • Regulator: mares - abyss
  • Light: archon - D10XL
  • Camera: canon - s110+ikelite
  • Mask: Cressi Sub - big eyes evo
  • Weights: 5 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 30 bar
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  • Average depth: 17.1m
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Species Identified

Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) (Twobar seabream) Inhabits shallow coastal waters, mainly around reefs . Enters estuaries and bays . Occurs in small groups. . Marketed fresh or dried.
Oblada melanura (Linnaeus, 1758) (Saddled seabream) Gregarious, forms aggregations over rocky bottoms or seagrass beds . Omnivorous but feeds mainly on small invertebrates . Important food fish.
Gobius xanthocephalus Heymer & Zander, 1992 (Golden goby) Occurs inshore, among and under stones. Nothing is known about its feeding and reproduction .
Coris julis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean rainbow wrasse) Occurs in the littoral zone, near rocks and eelgrass beds. Usually found between 1-60 m, but old males stay in deeper water. Found in deeper waters during winter. Sometimes solitary, among rocks, often with numerous spe...
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Sciaena umbra Linnaeus, 1758 (Brown meagre) Occurs in shallow coastal waters mainly on rocky and sandy bottoms, often entering estuaries and more active at night. Also inhabits caves and reefs . Feeds on small fishes and crustaceans . SCUBA diving observations su...
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Apogon imberbis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cardinal fish) Occasionally forms schools; sometimes solitary. Inhabits muddy or rocky bottoms and caves. Feeds on small invertebrates and fishes . Oral brooding by males .
Parablennius rouxi (Cocco, 1833) (longstriped blenny) Occurs in the shallow littoral zone to the zone beyond the influence of water movements, over light rocks or pebbles without algal cover and on secondary hard bottoms of coralligenous origin. Feeds on periphyton, harpacti...
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Diplodus cervinus (Lowe, 1838) (Zebra seabream)
Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean barracuda) Found in coastal and offshore waters . Feeds mostly on fish, less often on cephalopods and crustaceans .
Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) (Duskey grouper) The dusky grouper is a protogynous hermaphrodite, meaning that it matures as a female but later develops into a male as it grows larger and older . Sexual maturity is attained fairly late, when females are around five year...
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Mycteroperca rubra (Bloch, 1793) (Grouper) Occurs over rocky and sandy bottoms; young individuals very common in mangrove-lined lagoons. Feeds on mollusks and small fishes. Marketed fresh.
Alcyonium palmatum Pallas, 1766
Chromis chromis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean chromis) Form small shoals in midwater above or near rocky reefs or above seagrass meadows (Posidonia. Feed on small planktonic or benthic animals . Reproduce in summer . Eggs characterised by adhesive filaments are nested on rocky or sandy bottoms . Males guard the eggs .
Scorpaena scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 (Large-scaled scorpion fish) Solitary and sedentary over rocky, sandy or muddy bottoms. Feeds on fishes, crustaceans and mollusks .
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 .
Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758) (European conger)
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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Echinaster sepositus (common starfish)

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