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  • Nº3 # Date: 2012-02-27 - 10:00
  • # Max Depth: 14m Duration: 44mins
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Open Water Dive 3 = All Skills Complete
Gold-saddle rabbitfish, bamboo shark, Kuhl's stingray, clownfish, Clark's anemonefish, nudibranchs, longfin bannerfish, razorfish.

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  • Dive type : Recreational, Training
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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Nudibranchia (nudibranchs)
Siganus (Orange-spotted spinefoot)
Chiloscyllium plagiosum ([Bennett], 1830) (whitespotted bamboo shark) A common but little-known inshore bottom shark . Feeds on bony fishes and crustaceans . Oviparous . Utilized for human consumption and used in Chinese medicine . Caught by multiple hook and line and trawl . Caught rarely by demersal gillnet fisheries operating inshore .
Neotrygon kuhlii (Müller & Henle, 1841) (Bluespotted stingray) A solitary species found on sandy bottoms near rocky or coral reefs . Usually found in deeper water but moves onto the reef flat and into shallow lagoons at high tide . Occasionally covers itself with sand, leaving only ...
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Amphiprion (Anemonefishes and Clownfishes)
Aeoliscus strigatus (Günther, 1861) (Razorfish) Form schools among the spines of Diadema or staghorn corals, and feed on minute crustaceans in the zooplankton. Remarkable for their strange body shape and swimming habit: the body is encased in an armor of thin, transpa...
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Heniochus acuminatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pennant coralfish) Inhabit deep, protected lagoons and channels, and the deeper parts of outer reef slopes. Juveniles are often solitary while adults occur in pairs . A planktivorous species that generally remains within a few meters of th...
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