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  • Nº44 # Date: 2016-01-31 - 09:00
  • # Max Depth: 17m Duration: 55mins
Diver's Notes

Went for a dive with Maddy, Greg, Pieter and Greg's friend Ricky on the west end of bare island. The viz was terrible at first but improved later on. We went through a thermocline with a pretty big temperature drop of 23 down to 18 degrees. Felt the cold quite a bit from that.

We saw a fiddler ray which I'd never seen before:
http://australianmuseum.net.au/eastern-fiddler-ray-trygonorrhina-fasciata

Spent a lot of time with the blue groper, as usual, although Maddy and Greg say there's actually 2 blue gropers in the area and one has a damaged dorsal fin.

Swam with schools of fish, saw a number of nudibranchs, saw a toad fish and an octopus.

Here's the footage of the dive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBSgAepSfWA

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  • Surface interval:0 mins
  • Temp: Surf 23°C Bottom 18°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Bad Water: Salt
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  • BCD: Halcyon - Traveler
  • Fins: Hollis - F1
  • Other: Halcyon - ACB Weight Pockets
  • Wet suit: Waterproof - W2 7mm
  • Camera: GoPro - Hero 4
  • Weights: 10 kg
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