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  • Nº26 # Date: 2013-10-24
  • # Max Depth: 19m Duration: 60mins
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First and only dive on holiday with dad.First sighting of a Spider Crab! Also saw two Octopus changing colour as they moved over different topography's which was awesome.Spotted a large Stingray, a small Squid and large banks of Barracuda.The lava formations were different to anything I've dived before which was interesting.

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Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sting ray) Found over sandy and muddy bottoms, sometimes in estuaries and near rocky reefs . Feed on bottom fishes, crustaceans and mollusks. Ovoviviparous, gestation period about 4 months and 4-7 young are produced. Wings markete...
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Grimpoteuthis megaptera (Verrill, 1885) (Octopus)
Batoteuthis skolops Young and Roper, 1968 (Oceanic squid)
Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean barracuda) Found in coastal and offshore waters . Feeds mostly on fish, less often on cephalopods and crustaceans .
Anasimus latus M. J. Rathbun, 1894 (stilt spider crab)

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