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  • Nº68 # Date: 2009-04-11 - 10:29
  • # Max Depth: 25.9m Duration: 30mins
Diver's Notes

Large wreck of steel steamship/transport from Malta - Gib, broke free& sank off the Mole. Just like diving in the UK! Not great vis but enough life to make it interesting. Wreck is upside-down but fairly intact. Large shoals of small fish, colourful fan corals, an octopus in a hole, loads of beautiful nudibranch, very weird round sea pens, actinothoe (anemomes), sea fans.

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Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 16°C Bottom 14°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Wreck
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 13 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 100 bar
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  • Average depth: 17.3m
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Species Identified

Octopus hubbsorum Berry, 1953 (Octopus)
Eunicella verrucosa (Pallas, 1766) (Broad sea fan) Although there is no direct information on the reproduction of the pink sea fan, it is thought that larvae are short-lived and settle soon after release . It is a slow growing and long-lived species and if a population is...
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Anthias anthias (Linnaeus, 1758) (Swallowtail seaperch) Lives amongst rocks, gravel, coral and in submarine caves on the continental shelf and upper slope. Nocturnal. Feeds on crustaceans and small fishes. Protogynous.
Apogon pacificus (Herre, 1935) (Cardinalfish) Stays under ledge overhangs and other shaded, reclusive areas on rocky reefs and slopes during the day. Feeds in the open at night. Often mingles with other cardinal fish .

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