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  • Nº11 # Date: 2016-05-22 - 11:11
  • # Max Depth: 13.8m Duration: 31mins
Diver's Notes

Check dive. Required by resort prior to using equipment/tanks. Buoyancy was OK with full tank in 3mm suit, but with empty tank struggled to stay down. No empty's around to do proper check prior to dive. Add 2# next dive.

Good dive to get familiar with salt water, shore diving and Nitrox. At 47' visibility was great. Many species of fish, including lionfish, trumpetfish, parrotfish.

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  • Temp: Surf 29°C Bottom 29°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef, Resort Check Dive
  • Visibility: Excellent Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • BCD: Hollis - HD-200
  • Boots: Subgear - 6mm Pro Zip
  • Computer: Atomic Aquatics - Cobalt 2
  • Dive skin: Scubapro - Loose fit rash guard
  • Dive skin: Scubapro - Rashguard shorts
  • Fins: Mares - Avanti Quantro+
  • Mask: Atomic Aquatics - Venom
  • Regulator: Scubapro - G260
  • Regulator: Scubapro - Mk25 EVO
  • Regulator: Scubapro - R095
  • Wet suit: Bare - Velocity 3mm
  • Weights: 7.3 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Nitrox 33
  • 11L Steel     181 → 68 bar
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  • Average depth: 9.4m
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Species Identified

Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) (Red lionfish)
Haemulon sciurus (Shaw, 1803) (Blue striped grunt) Found in small groups over coral and rocky reefs and drop-offs . Juveniles are abundant in Thalassia beds . Feeds on crustaceans, bivalves, and occasionally on small fishes. Marketed fresh.
Stegastes partitus (Poey, 1868) (bicolor damselfish) Inhabits shallow coral reefs and isolated patch reefs in deeper water. Feeds primarily on algae but also on polychaetes, hydroids, copepods and ascidians . Aggressively territorial but only around a small area . Taken incidentally in traps and small-meshed beach nets .
Sparisoma viride (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Dark green parrotfish) Inhabits coral reefs with clear water . Young may be found in seagrass beds and other heavily vegetated bottoms. Feeds mainly on soft algae, but has been observed to graze on live corals like, Montastraea annularis . Pr...
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Nicholsina usta (Valenciennes, 1840) (Emerald parrotfish)
Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck, 1765) (Unicornfish)

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