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  • Nº47 # Date: 2012-08-08 - 10:05
  • # Max Depth: 25.3m Duration: 56mins
Diver's Notes

Photographed a leopard shark - just chilling on the sandy bottom. School of barracudas, squid, moray eel and big yellow fin tuna.
Nothing beats being 1 meter from a leopard shark, though.

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  • Temp: Surf 29°C Bottom 0°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Photo
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 5 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 20 bar
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  • Average depth: 16.9m
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Species Identified

Stegostoma fasciatum (Hermann, 1783) (zebra shark) These sharks are mostly solitary but can occasionally be found in aggregations of 20 to 50 individuals . Believed to be a nocturnal hunter, they spend most of the day lazily swimming and resting on the bottom , becoming a...
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Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale, 1905 (Barracuda) Found near prominent current-swept lagoons or seaward reefs . Also in bays and inner turbid lagoons . Nocturnally active, but occurring in relatively large schools during the day . Sold fresh or processed into fish cakes .
Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis (Lesson, 1830 in 1830-1831) (Flying squid)
Gymnothorax flavimarginatus (Rüppell, 1830) (Yellow-edged moray)
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) (yellowfin tuna) The yellowfin tuna is a schooling fish, and has a strong tendency to aggregate with fish of the same size, rather that just school with other yellowfin tunas . They can often be seen swimming near the surface with other t...
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