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  • Nº43 # Date: 2014-12-28
  • # Max Depth: 18m Duration: 50mins
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First dive as an Advanced Open Water certified diver!!! Entered in a shallow 3 metre area before swimming out across sand and seagrass onto a reef wall with a huge drop.Saw a small spotted Moray Eel and various local Wrasse. Vis wasn't exceptional today at about 10 metres.

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  • Dive type : Recreational
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  • Mask: Atomic Aquatics - frameless
  • Fins: mares - avanti Quattro Plus
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Gymnothorax favagineus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Laced moray) Inhabits reef flats and outer reef slopes of continental reefs . One of the two largest of Indo-Pacific morays. Often in holes with cleaner wrasses or shrimps . Feeds on cephalopods and small fishes . Large adults may be aggressive . Minimum depth reported taken from Ref. 30573.
Halichoeres melanochir Fowler and Bean, 1928 (Black wrasse) Inhabits coral reefs or shallow rocky areas.
Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay and Bennett, 1839) (Fivestripe wrasse) Found in clear outer lagoon reefs and exposed seaward reefs. Abundant in shallow exposed areas with surge channels , with gutters, large Acropora plates and algae bottom . Benthopelagic . Males are often in small loose...
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Thalassoma purpureum (Forsskål, 1775) (Surge wrasse)
Oxycheilinus bimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Two-spot wrasse) Inhabits outer reef slopes or deep clear lagoons among rubble or clumps of algae; also in seagrass beds . Often in sheltered estuaries and harbors . Benthic and benthopelagic .

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