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  • Nº90 # Date: 2017-08-14 - 08:59
  • # Max Depth: 21m Duration: 52mins
Diver's Notes

Took a speed boat out to a local dive site which was the first dive using my new camera set up.Saw a huge Moray Eel, an octopus,2 Titan Trigger Fish,2 Lionfish and a Sea cucumber and a Stonefish.Unfortunately I left the cover over the flash window.

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  • Temp: Surf 34°C Bottom 31°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Camera: Canon - G9X Mk ii
  • BCD: Scubapro - X-Black
  • Camera: Canon - G9X mrk ii
  • Computer: Suunto - Vyper Novo Graphite
  • Fins: Mares - Avanti Quattro Plus
  • Mask: Atomic Aquatics - Frameless
  • Wet suit: Scuba pro - everflex 5/4
  • Weights: 8 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     220 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 14m
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Species Identified

Taeniura lymma (Forsskål, 1775) (Bluespotted ribbontail ray) Blue-spotted stingrays live alone or in small groups , migrating in large schools into shallow sandy areas on the rising tide in order to feed, and dispersing back into the ocean as the tide falls to shelter in the coral c...
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Muraena retifera Goode and Bean, 1882 (Moray eel) Known only from moderate depths along outer continental shelf.
Balistoides viridescens (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Titan triggerfish) Occur in lagoon, seaward reefs and sheltered inner reef slopes . Juveniles often associated with isolated patches of branching coral or rubble of shallow sandy protected areas. Adults occur singly or in pairs on the slo...
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Octopus hubbsorum Berry, 1953 (Octopus)
Thelenota anax Clark, 1921 (giant sea cucumber)
Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) (Red lionfish)

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