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  • Nº66 # Date: 2012-08-01 - 10:30
  • # Max Depth: 31.1m Duration: 52mins
Diver's Notes

CMAS 3* Training - 20m-> 4m without inflating BC and using finns
Exploration as "group leader" ... well that was a asmall group and the instrutor did behave :D

We encoutered a school of sardines drawing to it a school of jacks and snappers, a couple big grouper and a couple barracudas ! the school circled us and stopped a couple meters away from us.

Exit with a parachute at 5msw

Training hence no camera...

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  • Temp: Surf 27°C Bottom 22°C
  • Dive type : Training
  • Visibility: Average
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  • Computer: Mares - Nemo Excel
  • Weights: 8 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 12.9m
  • SAC: 1.26 bar/min
  • RMV: 15.12 L/min
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Species Identified

Lutjanus ehrenbergii (Peters, 1869) (Ehrenberg's snapper) Inhabits very shallow coastal habitats, often in large schools near freshwater run-offs . Juveniles often intertidal . Feeds on small fish and invertebrates . May enter freshwater to feed .
Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) (Duskey grouper) The dusky grouper is a protogynous hermaphrodite, meaning that it matures as a female but later develops into a male as it grows larger and older . Sexual maturity is attained fairly late, when females are around five year...
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Microspathodon chrysurus (Cuvier, 1830) (Jewelfish) A common territorial species that inhabits coral reefs, juveniles usually encountered among branches of yellow stinging coral, Millepora. Found in very shallow waters of coral reefs, usually near top of outer edge where ...
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Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards, 1771) (Alho)
Scorpaena stephanica Cadenat, 1943 (Spotted-fin rockfish) Inhabits sand, mud and rock bottoms . Carnivorous .

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