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  • Nº18 # Date: 2014-02-24 - 08:47
  • # Max Depth: 28m Duration: 43mins
Diver's Notes

Fun Dive 9 (drift, wall)

- Drift dive along wall.
Saw turtles and a remora attached to one, which then came off and attached itself to Mike's tank.
- Various tight swim throughs.
- Saw giant crabs, lobster, baby angelfish.

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  • Temp: Surf 28°C Bottom 27°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Deep dive, Drift, Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 3.6 kg
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Species Identified

Caretta caretta Linnaeus 1758 (Loggerhead Turtle) Adults are primarily carnivorous, using their powerful jaws to crack open crustaceans such as crabs and even seemingly impenetrable molluscs such as the queen conch (Strombus gigas) and giant clam (Tridacna s...
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Chelonia mydas Linnaeus 1758 (Green Turtle) Green turtles are long-lived and may take up to 59 years to reach sexual maturity Undertaking tremendous feats of navigation, adults return to the same beach to breed each season, part of the population in Brazil astonish...
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Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common remora) Usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships ; found in gill chambers, fins and body surface . Sometimes free-swimming . Younger individual is more active as parasite pickers . Feeds on parasitic copepods .
Acanthocarpus alexandri Stimpson, 1871 (gladiator box crab)

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