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  • Nº72 # Date: 2016-10-07 - 10:16
  • # Max Depth: 22m Duration: 51mins
Diver's Notes

This was a great dive with a lot of live. I saw many banded coral shrimp, a very small lionfish, a lizard fish, a sea turtle, cowfish, a tarpon, two lettuce sea slugs, a puffer, a big snapper (cubera snapper), and something that looked like a corallomorph (actually artichoke coral).

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Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 34°C Bottom 28°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef, Photo, Shore dive
  • Water: Salt
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  • BCD: Oceanic - Hera
  • Computer: Oceanic - Pro Plus 2.1
  • Regulator: Oceanic - Delta 4
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Nitrox 33
  • 0L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: m
  • 2. Air
  • 0L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: m
  • 3. Air
  • 0L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 12.4m
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Species Identified

Sicyonia laevigata Stimpson, 1871 (coral shrimp)
Synodus intermedius (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (Lizardfish) Found on the sandy bottom around boulders or in sandy corridors in patch reefs . Uncommon near the shore.
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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Acanthostracion polygonius Poey, 1876 (honeycomb cowfish) Occurs in clear water around coral reefs. Feeds on sponges, alcyonarians, tunicates, and shrimp. Uncommon and wary . Consumed fresh, generally roasted .
Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, 1847 (Atlantic tarpon)
Lutjanus cyanopterus (Cuvier, 1828) (Cubera snapper) Adults found mainly around ledges over rocky bottoms or around reefs. Young sometimes inhabit mangrove areas. Feeds mainly on fishes, shrimps and crabs . A wary fish, not easily approached underwater .
Scolymia cubensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (artichoke coral) zooxanthellate

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