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  • Nº890 # Date: 2013-11-09 - 12:08
  • # Max Depth: 19.6m Duration: 30mins
Diver's Notes

Lobster diving with Jules and 3 others. I wasn't there for the lobster, only for the shenanigans! Hilarious watching divers defeated by little tiny lobsters. Viz in the area of the lobster hunters was about 5 feet and everywhere else was about 60 feet!
Amazing watching the giant black sea bass swimming around us and giving us an eye full.

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  • Temp: Surf 20°C Bottom 16°C
  • Dive type : Reef
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • 1. Air
  • 10L Steel     174 → 110 bar
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  • Average depth: 15.4m
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Species Identified

Stereolepis gigas Ayres, 1859 (Giant sea-bass) Black sea bass can swim very fast for short distances but are not built for sustained speed and the vast majority of their prey is caught on the sea bed . As the black sea bass rapidly opens its huge mouth a vacuum is pro...
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Semicossyphus pulcher (Ayres, 1854) (California sheephead)
Oxyjulis californica (Günther, 1861) (senorita) Live in kelp and other seaweeds and over rocks. Found usually at depths shallower than 23 m but also caught at depths up to 73 m. Often form small groups, frequently well off bottom. When disturbed often burrows in bott...
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Chromis punctipinnis (Cooper, 1863) (Blacksmith chromis) Occurs near bottom over or near rocks, especially over steep banks, and also in kelp beds. Young school in open ocean. Retires to rocky holes at night. Good eating.
Hypsypops rubicundus (Girard, 1854) (Damselfish)
Girella nigricans (Ayres, 1860) (opaleye)
Diplodus sargus lineatus (Valenciennes, 1830) (sargo) Inhabits rocky bottoms interspersed with sand in near-shore waters to about 30 m depth or slightly more. Feeds on seaweeds and benthic invertebrates .
Panulirus interruptus (J. W. Randall, 1840) (California spiny lobster)

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