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  • Nº105 # Date: 2016-08-06 - 11:16
  • # Max Depth: 5.5m Duration: 24mins
Diver's Notes

Wonderful day in Sandycove, sun shining, light breeze, and plenty of people about. Plenty of divers about too. Low tide was 08:14 with high tide expected about 14:41 so our dive wasn't too deep.

Very little life about. We must be diving in the wrong area as other divers are reporting a good amount of life in the area. All we saw today were a few crab and wrasse. Go figure!

It was a pleasant dive all the same, a nice way to start off the morning.

Dive Profile
Dive Location

  • Surface interval:0 mins
  • Temp: Surf 23°C Bottom 15°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, shore
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • BCD: Aqualung - Maverick
  • Regulator: Aqualung - Glacia
  • Other: Suunto - 2+1 Console (depth,air,compass)
  • Mask: H2O Odyssey 3 - MS8
  • Dry suit: Oceanic -
  • Computer: Suunto - Zoop
  • Camera: Canon - S45 & Housing
  • Weights: 13 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     220 → 170 bar
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  • Average depth: 3.7m
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Species Identified

Centrolabrus exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) (smallmouthed wrasse)
Sagartiogeton laceratus (Dalyell, 1848)
Sagartia troglodytes (Price in Johnston, 1847) (mud sagartia)
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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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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