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  • Nº20 # Date: 2014-02-24 - 18:21
  • # Max Depth: 14m Duration: 52mins
Diver's Notes

Fun Dive 11 (drift, night)

- Night Dive!!
- Saw 3 octopus (change shape and colour and shoot ink)
- Saw yellow stingray, southern stingray, spotted drum, crabs walking about, hermit crabs, a cute pufferfish that puffed up under Servandos torch and a spotted moray eel swimming.
- Everything comes out at night, this is a must.

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  • Surface interval:399 mins
  • Temp: Surf 27°C Bottom 27°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Night dive, Drift, Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 3.6 kg
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Species Identified

Petrochirus diogenes (Linnaeus, 1758) (Giant Hermit Crab)
Callinectes bocourti A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 (blunt-tooth swimming crab)
Acanthocarpus alexandri Stimpson, 1871 (gladiator box crab)
Octopus hubbsorum Berry, 1953 (Octopus)
Octopus briareus Robson, 1929 (Caribbean reef octopus)
Dasyatis americana Hildebrand and Schroeder, 1928 (stingaree) The southern stingray is an active swimmer that feeds primarily at night, on a diet of invertebrates and small fishes. They feeding by flapping their wing-like pectoral fins to disturb the sand, and expose their prey . T...
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Dasyatis sabina (Lesueur, 1824) (Atlantic stingray)
Sphoeroides yergeri Shipp, 1972 (Speckled puffer)
Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier, 1829) (Common conger) A benthic and solitary species abundant in shallow rocky and grassy areas and on coral reefs; less common in turbid bays or harbors. Its bite is very dangerous . Active during the day, sometimes together with other pred...
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Myrichthys ocellatus (Lesueur, 1825) (Dark-spotted snake eel) Common near islands and in rocky or coral areas . May move beneath the sand . Found in seagrass bed sand areas with sand and coral rubble . Feeds mainly on crabs . Forages at night for prey.
Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) (Caribbean spiny lobster)

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