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  • Nº2 # Date: 2012-04-21 - 13:11
  • # Max Depth: 7m Duration: 41mins
Diver's Notes

Second open water qualification dive, Long Beach, Cape Town.

31C afternoon.

Big common octopus in pipeline, remember the tentacles and suckers! More trouble equalising, better buoyancy, klipvis (rock fish) lumo green, iridescent algae.

Cramps afterwards.

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  • Temp: Surf 20°C Bottom 15°C
  • Dive type : Training
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 7 kg
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  • Dive with Iain Robertson
  • Dive buddies: Brendan
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  • 1. Air
  • 10L Aluminium     210 → 70 bar
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  • Average depth: 4.7m
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Species Identified

Amphitretus pelagicus Hoyle, 1885 (Octopus)

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