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  • Nº2 # Date: 2013-11-10 - 15:21
  • # Max Depth: 12m Duration: 43mins
Diver's Notes

Open Water training dive #2

First rock swim-through

Saw: big pufferfish, seal-faced pufferfish, black-blotched porcupine fish, lionfish, 2 titan triggerfish chasing each other around a rock

Skills:
Weight belt removal/replacement at surface

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  • Temp: Bottom 28°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Training, Drift
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 6 kg
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  • Submariner Diving Center confirmed the dive with parameters: 12m / 43mins
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 8m
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Species Identified

Arothron stellatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Blackspotted puffer) Relatively uncommon in patch reefs and coral slopes near sandy areas of clear lagoon and seaward reefs. Juveniles occur in sandy and weedy inner reefs, adults on clear lagoons and seaward reefs . Juveniles inshore, usual...
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Canthigaster bennetti (Bleeker, 1854) (Bennett's sharpnose puffer) Inhabits inner reef flats and sheltered lagoons. A common inshore species, often on algal or silty reefs and among attached Sargassum on shallow rubble flats . Feeds mainly on filamentous green algae and to a lesser exte...
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Diodon liturosus Shaw, 1804 (Black-blotched porcupinefish) Inhabits reef edges and slopes . Hides in caves and ledges during the day and forages at night . Also found below plate-corals during the day and often deep, ranging to at least 40 meters depth. Juveniles occur in lagoo...
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Balistoides viridescens (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Titan triggerfish) Occur in lagoon, seaward reefs and sheltered inner reef slopes . Juveniles often associated with isolated patches of branching coral or rubble of shallow sandy protected areas. Adults occur singly or in pairs on the slo...
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