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  • Nº6 # Date: 2011-11-27 - 12:00
  • # Max Depth: 20m Duration: 39mins
Diver's Notes

Many grey nurse sharks (10+), 6-7 feet long
Port Jackson shark
Wall of striped trumpeter
Star fish
swam into looking glass "crack in the rock"
AOW - Naturalist dive
Instructor 254979

Dive Profile
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  • Temp: Surf 29°C Bottom 16°C
  • Dive type : Training
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 7.3 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     220 → 100 bar
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  • Average depth: 13.3m
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Species Identified

Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) (Gray reef shark) Occurs on continental and insular shelves and oceanic waters adjacent to them . Common on coral reefs, often in deeper areas near drop-offs to the open sea, in atoll passes, and in shallow lagoons adjacent to areas of str...
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Heterodontus portusjacksoni (Meyer, 1793) (Port Jackson shark) A common shark of the continental shelves , from close inshore at the intertidal zone to 275 m . Segregates by sex and maturity stage . Nocturnal, hides in caves and rocky gullies during the day . Feeds on benthic inver...
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Pelates octolineatus (Jenyns, 1840) (Western striped trumpeter) An omnivore found in inshore areas .

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