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  • Nº22 # Date: 2018-11-22 - 10:28
  • # Max Depth: 16.2m Duration: 48mins
Diver's Notes

Best dive of the day, saw cuttlefish, octopus, moray eel, starry toadfish, and black blotched porcupine fish. Small current resulted in slight drift dive and was easily managed. Used all rental gear except mask, snorkel, DC, dive-alert, and med shears.

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  • Surface interval:0 mins
  • Temp: Surf 31°C Bottom 29°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef, Boat
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Computer: Aqualung - i750tc
  • Mask: Aqualung - Look 2
  • Weights: 3.6 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 10L Aluminium     200 → 65 bar
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  • Average depth: 10.8m
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Species Identified

Opisthoteuthis depressa Ijima and Ikeda, 1895 (Octopus)
Diodon liturosus Shaw, 1804 (Black-blotched porcupinefish) Inhabits reef edges and slopes . Hides in caves and ledges during the day and forages at night . Also found below plate-corals during the day and often deep, ranging to at least 40 meters depth. Juveniles occur in lagoo...
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Sepia aculeata Van Hasselt, 1835 in Férussac and D'Orbigny, 1834-1848 (Cuttlefish)
Gymnothorax reticularis Bloch, 1795 (Moray eel) Caught at great depths; ca 100 m on sandy gravel bottom . Often caught by trawls. Used in Chinese medicine .
Arothron firmamentum (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) (Starry toado) Found over the continental shelf and slope .

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