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  • Nº12 # Date: 2013-07-02 - 10:50
  • # Max Depth: 18.3m Duration: 46mins
Diver's Notes

One of the best dive sites with a lot of life! Saw french angels, queen angels, sea turtles, goat fish, barracuda, parrot fish, rays, lobsters, and many school of different types of fish.

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  • Dive type : Recreational, Drift, Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Excellent Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 4.5 kg
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  • Dive buddies: Kevin Rapine, Justin Jantes, Joe_kickass
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Species Identified

Pomacanthus paru (Bloch, 1787) (French angelfish) Common in shallow reefs. Usually in pairs, often near sea fans . Feed on sponges, algae, bryozoans, zoantharians, gorgonians and tunicates . Oviparous , monogamous . Spawning pairs are strongly territorial, with usuall...
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Holacanthus ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (queen angelfish) Found on coral reefs. Generally occurs solitarily or in pairs. Moves gracefully between seafans, seawhips, and corals . Stomach contents of 26 specimens indicate that the species feeds almost exclusively on sponges supp...
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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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Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes, 1831) (Vanikolo goatfish)
Sphyraena lucasana Gill, 1863 (Barracuda)
Scarus psittacus Forsskål, 1775 (Common parrotfish) Inhabit reef flats and lagoon and seaward reefs to at least 25 m depth . Found over corals . Benthopelagic . Initial-phase fish stage usually form small feeding schools . Graze on benthic algae . Secrete a mucus cocoon .
Dasyatis brevicaudata (Hutton, 1875) (Short-tail stingray) Occurs offshore, on the outer shelf and uppermost slope; sometimes close inshore , in very shallow depths . Found on sandy bottoms, in bays, harbors, and near rocky reefs . Often in aggregations . Feeds on fishes, biva...
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Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787) (common spiny lobster)

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