Ireland
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Nº92
Date: 2013-07-11 - 13:43
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Max Depth: 8.8m Duration: 23mins
Dive Location
- Temp: Surf 20°C Bottom 14°C
- Dive type : Recreational, Photo, video, shore
- 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 240 → 150 bar
- Average depth: 5.9m
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Species Identified
Luidia sarsi
Palaemon serratus (Pennant, 1777) (common prawn)
The common prawn is omnivorous. The sexes are separate, and breeding occurs between November and June. Fertilisation is external, and occurs as the eggs leave the female's body. The female then carries the eggs around att...
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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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Labrus mixtus Linnaeus, 1758 (red wrasse)
Ctenolabrus rupestris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Goldsinny-wrasse)
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It took us quite a while to find parking today. It's something to think about when planing a dive excursion to this location!! Clear skies and hundreds of people about swimming in the cove and at the 40 foot near by. As a result we had to park up a bit from the access to the dive site so we were sweating in our gear by the time we were all suited up.
There was a bit of a swell (about three feet) so it took us a bit of time to enter the water. Thank god for the pole located at the entry point, it came in handy for donning our fins.
It was another lovely dive at Mourners point. As I said there was a bit of a swell but once we were down it wasn't too bad. Current was running a little (N-S) with high tide at 14:23.
At the start of the dive we came across an interesting oval shaped rock. It looked like a very large egg but about the size of a small coffee table. I've attached photos to the log.
As usual there were lots of starfish about, crabs lurking under rocks, a few shrimp and a few Pollock and Wrasse. One of the Pollock was about the length of my forearm from elbow to finger tip.
We also saw a few jellyfish about, one of them looked the worse for ware and seemed to have been nibbled on around the edges.
Another lovely dive!