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  • Nº9 # Date: 2014-10-25 - 12:47
  • # Max Depth: 18m Duration: 37mins
Diver's Notes

this is the coldest dive i've ever been to. i wear a well insulated 5/3 mm wetsuit and still shivering from the moment i touched the water.
this is THE mola-mola spot. mola-mola coming from around the world to get their bodies cleaned. kind of fish day spa in comparison.
the temp was 22 deg C on my dive comp. the thermocline is visible, and i can feel the temp difference when going through it. lots of bannerfish also seen. but no mola-mola was seen throughout the dive. Dang!
the lionfish, the pufferfish, the ribbon eel, the gobies, can't mask my dissappointment, as i dive to meet mola-mola. pheew, not my lucky day i suppose.

Dive Profile
Dive Location

  • Temp: Bottom 20°C
  • Dive type : Deep dive, Photo
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 6 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Aluminium     210 → 40 bar
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  • Average depth: 12m
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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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Amphiprion chrysopterus Cuvier, 1830 (Two-banded anemonefish) Inhabits passages and outer reef slopes. Known to occur at 25°C. Feeds chiefly on planktonic copepods, algae, echiuroid and sipunculoid worms, and pelagic tunicates. Associated with the anemones: Entacmaea quadricolor,...
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