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  • Nº36 # Date: 2015-06-29 - 11:20
  • # Max Depth: 22m Duration: 47mins
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  • Temp: Surf 30°C Bottom 30°C
  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Wet suit: Deep Blue - 0.3mm (Shortie)
  • Weights: 2 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 100 bar
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  • Average depth: 14.7m
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Species Identified

Pomacanthus imperator (Bloch, 1787) (Angel fish) Juveniles are encountered under ledges, or in holes of outer lagoon patch reefs or semi-protected areas of exposed channels and outer reef flats. Subadults move to reef front holes and surge channels. Large adults inhabi...
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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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Sphoeroides spengleri (Bloch, 1785) (Puffer) Abundant in all inshore habitats where there is adequate cover, such as seagrass beds and reef flats. Feeds on mollusks, crustaceans and echinoderms . Generally common . Traded as an aquarium fish at Ceará, Brazil .
Halichoeres vrolikii (Bleeker, 1855) (Indian Ocean pinstriped wrasse) Found in shallow weedy areas of rocky shorelines, not where there is rich coral growth .
Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) (Blue wrasse) Occurs in the upper portions of lagoon and coastal reefs, and in protected seaward reefs . Enters estuaries . Usually found on upper portions of ledges and heads . Feeds mainly on small benthic invertebrates and fish eggs . A protogynous hermaphrodite .
Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale, 1905 (Barracuda) Found near prominent current-swept lagoons or seaward reefs . Also in bays and inner turbid lagoons . Nocturnally active, but occurring in relatively large schools during the day . Sold fresh or processed into fish cakes .
Ostracion nasus Bloch, 1785 (Shortnose boxfish) Found around rocky and sandy substrates .
Epinephelus hexagonatus (Forster, 1801) (Hexagon rockcod) Common in exposed outer-reef areas in relatively shallow water. Well-camouflaged grouper, solitary . Feeds mainly on fishes and crustaceans .
Chilomycterus atringa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Porcupine fish)
Heteroconger hassi (Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959) (Spotted garden-eel) Often found on sandy slopes below 15 m; withdraws into its burrow when approached. Usually in colonies containing up to several hundred individuals.

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