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  • Nº85 # Date: 2011-04-24 - 12:11
  • # Max Depth: 12.8m Duration: 37mins
Diver's Notes

Great dive heading W along the reef; lots of life & nooks & crannies to look in. Quite a few spiny spider crabs, a small velvet swimming crab, a bright purple nudibranch w/ yellow points, loads of starfish, blennies, a large dogfish, some goldsinny, lots of fairly large ballan wrasse (incl. one w/ a nasty looking hole on top of its head!), a leopard spotted goby, but alas no scallops!

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  • Temp: Surf 13°C Bottom 11°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 12 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 25L Steel     220 → 100 bar
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  • Average depth: m
  • 2. Nitrox 32
  • 3L Steel     200 → 200 bar
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  • Average depth: 0m
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Species Identified

Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 (Spiny dogfish) Said to be the most abundant living shark, the spiny dogfish is a slow, inactive swimmer and forms massive feeding aggregations of thousands of individuals. Tending to be same-sex and same-size shoals, they prey on shoals ...
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Paraclinus mexicanus (Gilbert, 1904) (Blenny)
Maja squinado (Herbst, 1788) (Sea spider)
Labrus bergylta Ascanius, 1767 (ballan wrasse)
Elacatinus saucrus (Robins, 1960) (Leopard goby) Found in living coral colonies; one of several small fishes that lives among the tentacles of living corals .
Ctenolabrus rupestris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Goldsinny-wrasse)

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