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  • Nº37 # Date: 2015-07-05 - 16:13
  • # Max Depth: 20.1m Duration: 38mins
Diver's Notes

Second training dive for shore diving specialty. The first dive where Justin and I had to plan the dive. We saw three sea horses, a file fish, a baby moray eel, a baby trunk fish, and an octopus. Also a three-rowed sea cucumber, a lettuce sea slug, and a scorpion fish.

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  • Temp: Surf 31°C Bottom 26°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Training, Reef, Shore dive
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • BCD: Oceanic - Hera
  • Computer: Oceanic - Pro Plus 2.1
  • Regulator: Oceanic - Delta 4
  • Weights: 3.6 kg
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  • 1. Nitrox 31
  • 0L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • 2. Air
  • 0L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • 3. Air
  • 0L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 11.9m
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Species Identified

Hippocampus reidi Ginsburg, 1933 (Slender sea horse) Uncommon in most areas, but may be locally common in certain places. Usually attached to gorgonians or seagrasses but may occur in floating Sargassum or swimming freely in midwater . Ovoviviparous . The male carries the...
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Cantherhines macrocerus (Hollard, 1853) (chivo) Inhabits coral reefs or rocky bottoms . Found among gorgonians. Occurs in pairs . Feeds mainly on sponges, gorgonians, and algae but also eats hydroids and stinging coral .
Gymnothorax miliaris (Kaup, 1856) (Bastard eel) A benthic and solitary species inhabiting coral reefs and rocky shorelines. Usually at depths of 60 m . One of the most common and easily recognized morays of the West Indian reefs, active during the day and sometimes h...
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Lactophrys bicaudalis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Trunkfish) Found in clear water around coral reefs. Sometimes under ledges and near small holes . Feeds on a variety of small bottom invertebrates such as mollusks, crustaceans, starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sessile tunic...
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Octopus briareus Robson, 1929 (Caribbean reef octopus)

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