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  • Nº93 # Date: 2013-10-07 - 13:05
  • # Max Depth: 6.7m Duration: 26mins
Diver's Notes

It's nice to be back in the water again after two months of working weekends and having to cancel dives due to weather changes.
Very mild day today, overcast, slight wind making conditions a bit choppy. Slight swell, high tide at 13:34.
It was a lovely relaxing dive. A few swimmers about and a few snorkelers too. My ears were playing up a bit today. Found it uncomfortable for the first few minutes to equalise but I took it slow and eventually got myself sorted. We took our time heading out towards the mouth of the bay on a NNW direction and found the tide pulling us out a bit so we headed west back towards the middle of the bay and it slackened off.
We took our time on this dive and started noticing the little creatures hanging around the bottom of the seabed. Would love to have had a camera with a macro lens with me. Ah well i'll have to do with the GoPro for now.
NOTE: I have added a short video (3min 48sec)of our two dives today. See the pictures tab to find it.

Dive Profile
Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 18°C Bottom 14°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Photo, Shore, Video
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • BCD: Aqualung - Maverick
  • Computer: Suunto - Zoop
  • Dry suit: Oceanic -
  • Mask: H2O Odyssey 3 - MS8
  • Other: Suunto - 2+1 Console (depth,air,compass)
  • Regulator: Aqualung - Glacia
  • Weights: 15 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     150 → 100 bar
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  • Average depth: 4.5m
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Species Identified

Cancer pagurus (Edible crab) Adult edible crabs take a very wide range of prey species, and are important predators of molluscs . When on sediments, these crabs dig large pits in order to find food . Females reach maturity at carapace widths of 1...
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Centrolabrus exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) (smallmouthed wrasse)
Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770) (freckled goby) In the sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus (Teleostei; Gobiidae), a distribution-wide study showed that spatial variation at the rhodopsin gene matches the characteristics of specific light environments. This match sugg...
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Porania pulvillus
Sagartiogeton laceratus (Dalyell, 1848)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lesser-spotted catshark)

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