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  • Nº45 # Date: 2017-05-21 - 13:08
  • # Max Depth: 21.6m Duration: 50mins
Diver's Notes

Loggerhead Reef:
This dive was a little more exciting in terms of marine life. I saw a couple of more loggerhead turtles which were of a large size. One minute I was glancing around and noticed a large reef shark swimming towards me and you came under me about 4 feet away. He came back around and then swim off into the open water. Later, I also noticed a large nurse shark who just went past me and went on his way. It was fun to see the sharks and it was my first time actually seeing shark here in Florida waters. The current here was probably about the same though we all got disbursed again. I came up alone but when I hit my 15 foot safety stopped up I noticed another set of divers doing their safety stop also. Both dives I seem to be working through oxygen a little faster than I normally do probably because I'm doing a lot more paddling. This dive I started ascending at around 600 and got on the boat with 500. I still had a good four minutes left on my dive computer due to the nitrox. I surfaced and of the boat was right there picking up some other divers so I just paddled my way over and boarded.

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  • Temp: Surf 33°C Bottom 26°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Mask: Sopras sub - Mask
  • Fins: Pro Light -
  • BCD: Cressi - Start Pro BC
  • Weights: 6.4 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 10L Steel     221 → 34 bar
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  • Average depth: 14.4m
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Species Identified

Caretta caretta Linnaeus 1758 (Loggerhead Turtle) Adults are primarily carnivorous, using their powerful jaws to crack open crustaceans such as crabs and even seemingly impenetrable molluscs such as the queen conch (Strombus gigas) and giant clam (Tridacna s...
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Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller and Henle, 1839) (Black-tip shark) The fast-swimming blacktip shark is an active fish that can be seen leaping out of the water and spinning before dropping back into the sea . This agile spinning behaviour is thought to be used while feeding on small scho...
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Gymnothorax miliaris (Kaup, 1856) (Bastard eel) A benthic and solitary species inhabiting coral reefs and rocky shorelines. Usually at depths of 60 m . One of the most common and easily recognized morays of the West Indian reefs, active during the day and sometimes h...
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