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  • Nº46 # Date: 2014-12-29
  • # Max Depth: 18m Duration: 54mins
Diver's Notes

Final dive of my holiday in St Lucia which was a drift dive along the base of the Piton mountains.The scene was amazing.Saw 3 small Spotted Moray Eels,2 Large Flounders, a large Lobster,2 Large Lionfish,a Green Moray Eel and an unusual electric Blue Trumpet fish which was a first.Also saw a Hermit Crab in a piece of cone shell.

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  • Dive type : Recreational, Drift, Reef
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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.
Metanephrops binghami (Boone, 1927) (Caribbean lobsterette)
Coenobita clypeatus (J. C. Fabricius, 1787) (Caribbean Hermit Crab)
Aulostomus maculatus Valenciennes, 1841 (Caribbean trumpetfish) Commonly found in weedy areas and especially around reefs, where they usually swim snout-down among sea whips . A solitary ambusher of small fishes and crustaceans that lurk among branching coral or gorgonians. Often swi...
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