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  • Nº15 # Date: 2009-08-06
  • # Max Depth: 18m Duration: 45mins
Diver's Notes

Best dive to date.Descended through a large school of Batfish before drifting over Shark and Yolanda reefs.Encountered a small wreck where I saw a large bank of Unicorn Fish,a large Barracuda and a Blue Spotted Stingray as well as a Puffer Fish and a Sleeper Fish.Finished the end of the dive using the instructors Octopus as I ran out of air.Amazing dive.

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Platax orbicularis (Forsskål, 1775) (Orbicular batfish) Live in shallow protected coastal waters to deep, somewhat silty habitats. Often with deep shipwrecks . Adults are found singly or in small groups and occasionally in large schools in some areas. Juveniles occur singly ...
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Arothron stellatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Blackspotted puffer) Relatively uncommon in patch reefs and coral slopes near sandy areas of clear lagoon and seaward reefs. Juveniles occur in sandy and weedy inner reefs, adults on clear lagoons and seaward reefs . Juveniles inshore, usual...
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Naso brevirostris (Cuvier, 1829) (Spotted unicornfish)
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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Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale, 1905 (Barracuda) Found near prominent current-swept lagoons or seaward reefs . Also in bays and inner turbid lagoons . Nocturnally active, but occurring in relatively large schools during the day . Sold fresh or processed into fish cakes .

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