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  • Nº86 # Date: 2008-09-18 - 09:30
  • # Max Depth: 22.3m Duration: 50mins
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  • Temp: Bottom 25°C
  • Dive type : Reef
  • Visibility: Excellent Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 5 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 10L Aluminium     208 → 35 bar
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  • Average depth: 14.8m
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Holacanthus ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (queen angelfish) Found on coral reefs. Generally occurs solitarily or in pairs. Moves gracefully between seafans, seawhips, and corals . Stomach contents of 26 specimens indicate that the species feeds almost exclusively on sponges supp...
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Rhinecanthus rectangulus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Wedge-tail triggerfish) Occur in shallow outer reefs subject to surge . Commonly found over barren rock or the spur-and-groove zone where there is a mixture of bare rock, rubble, and coral. Juveniles on algae reef . Benthopelagic . Feed on al...
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Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) (bottle-nosed dolphin) This active species engages in much energetic behaviour, including breaching , lobtailing and bow-riding . It has also been observed 'playing games' with seaweed and other objects . Dolphins are highly intelligent a...
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Canthigaster jactator (Jenkins, 1901) (Hawaiian whitespotted toby) Commonly found on lagoon and seaward reefs . Benthopelagic over coral, rock, rubble, and sand at 1-89 m . Feeds on sponges, algae, detritus, tunicates, polychaetes, bryozoans, sea urchins, brittle stars, crabs, peanut worms, shrimps, zoanthids, fishes, amphipods and foraminiferans .

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