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  • Nº10 # Date: 2014-06-19 - 11:15
  • # Max Depth: 18m Duration: 45mins
Diver's Notes

A good reef dive to finish off the week because we finally saw a sea turtle! It was the deepest reef of the week, and a nice easy drift dive as we were pushed south down the reef by the current. We had four people to our flag and the reef ridge was relatively narrow so we could essentially move down it together in a line. It was a good dive to practice buoyancy control and trim. It was the second dive of the day and a very relaxing one at that.

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  • Temp: Surf 28°C Bottom 27°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Drift, Reef
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 6.4 kg
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  • 1. Nitrox 36
  • 10L Aluminium     221 → 76 bar
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  • Average depth: 12m
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Species Identified

Chelonia mydas Linnaeus 1758 (Green Turtle) Green turtles are long-lived and may take up to 59 years to reach sexual maturity Undertaking tremendous feats of navigation, adults return to the same beach to breed each season, part of the population in Brazil astonish...
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Gymnothorax moringa (Cuvier, 1829) (Common conger) A benthic and solitary species abundant in shallow rocky and grassy areas and on coral reefs; less common in turbid bays or harbors. Its bite is very dangerous . Active during the day, sometimes together with other pred...
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Holacanthus ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (queen angelfish) Found on coral reefs. Generally occurs solitarily or in pairs. Moves gracefully between seafans, seawhips, and corals . Stomach contents of 26 specimens indicate that the species feeds almost exclusively on sponges supp...
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Sphoeroides nephelus (Goode and Bean, 1882) (southern puffer)
Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch, 1786) (sharpnose puffer) Inhabits reefs and marginal habitats such as seagrass beds . Diet consists of seagrass, sponges, crabs and other crustaceans, mollusks, polychaete worms, sea urchins, starfishes, hydroids and algae . Monogamous .
Paracanthurus hepatus (Linnaeus, 1766) (Palette surgeonfish) Occur in clear, current-swept terraces of seaward reefs. Observed in loose aggregations 1 or 2 meters above the bottom; juveniles and subadults typical in groups near isolated Pocillopora eydouxi coral heads and when alar...
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