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  • Nº74 # Date: 2016-10-07 - 15:39
  • # Max Depth: 14.4m Duration: 53mins
Diver's Notes

A great last dive of the trip. There was a lot of life under to salt pier. There were large schools of snappers, grunts, and goats. We saw many barracuda, queen angels, tarpon, and drums. We also saw a sharp tail eel and a midnight parrotfish.

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Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 33°C Bottom 28°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Photo, Shore dive, Pier dive
  • Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • BCD: Oceanic - Hera
  • Computer: Oceanic - Pro Plus 2.1
  • Regulator: Oceanic - Delta 4
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  • Dive buddies: Justin Jantes, Kevin Rapine, Joe_kickass
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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: 8.8m
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Species Identified

Ocyurus chrysurus (Bloch, 1791) (yellowtail snapper)
Haemulon aurolineatum Cuvier, 1830 (Tomtate grunt) Inhabits seagrass beds, sand flats, and patch reefs . Forms schools . Feeds on small crustaceans, mollusks, other benthic invertebrates, plankton, and algae . Marketed fresh and salted .
Mulloidichthys martinicus (Cuvier, 1829) (goatfish) Found over sandy areas of lagoon and seaward reefs . Often in schools . Forms schools with the smallmouth grunt , an association regarded as social protective mimicry . Juveniles are common in seagrass beds . Feeds on benthic invertebrates . Marketed fresh .
Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards, 1771) (Alho)
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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Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, 1847 (Atlantic tarpon)
Equetus lanceolatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Jack-knifefish) Inhabits bays and sounds; also deep coral reefs . Juveniles sometimes inshore . Easily approached . Has been reared in captivity . Feeds mainly on small shrimps and crabs, but also on polychaete worms and gastropod mollusks .
Myrichthys breviceps (Richardson, 1848) (Culebra rosario) Commonly encountered swimming near the bottom in clear water from harbors to reefs. More common along continent and in grassy areas . Found in shallow areas to depths of 9 m. Feeds mainly on crabs. .
Nicholsina usta (Valenciennes, 1840) (Emerald parrotfish)

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