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  • Nº2 # Date: 2015-07-24 - 15:54
  • # Max Depth: 12.1m Duration: 53mins
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Open Water Training Dive #2
Did a confined water session off the shore of the smaller island. Ramon joined us after that for lunch and our open water dive. Skills learnt: gearing up in-water with BCD and weights, buddy checks (BWRAF), snorkel-reg exchange, descend with line, AAS (donor and receiver ascend), full-mask flooding and clearing, neutral buoyancy-LPI, tired diver tow, cramp release. During the confined water session spotted a tiny, translucent jellyfish! So cute! For the open session, we followed Fizah's lead. Saw some cleaner shrimp at a semi-buried tyre, 2 jenkins whiprays, blue-spotted fantail ray, giant moray, COT, blue-ringed angel fish, yellow-tailed barracuda, banded splendor wrasse, parrot fish (dusky, bullet head, ember)! Practised out-of-air/buddy breathing and cramp removal/tired diver tow at the end of the dive.
*00:51/00:53/01:44

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  • Temp: Surf 31°C Bottom 29°C
  • Dive type : Training, Reef, Boat
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • 12L Steel
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  • Average depth: 8.1m
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Gymnothorax pictus (Ahl, 1789) (Moray) Adults inhabit reef flats and rocky intertidal shorelines. Feed on small fishes and crustaceans, sometimes leaving the water in pursuit of prey . Benthic . Simultaneous hermaphroditism is confirmed for this species . Caught with various nets .
Scarus rubroviolaceus Bleeker, 1847 (Ember parrotfish)
Scarus scaber Valenciennes, 1840 (Dusky-capped parrotfish) Inhabits shallow lagoon reefs, in areas with dense coral cover . Individuals in the initial phase form groups . Feeds on algae by incessant grazing in coral reefs . Marked sexual dimorphism.
Halichoeres notospilus (Günther, 1864) (Banded wrasse)
Lysmata amboinensis De Man, 1888 (scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Himantura jenkinsii (Annandale, 1909) (Dragon stingray) Found inshore, on sandy substrates to depths of 50m . Inhabits shallow coastal waters . Ovoviviparous . Common catch of the demersal tangle net, bottom trawl and, occasionally, longline fisheries. Utilized for its meat, skin and cartilage . Max. Length of female given in Ref.74367.
Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758) (crown-of-thorns starfish)
Sphyraena flavicauda Rüppell, 1838 (Yellowtail barracuda) Inhabits lagoon and sheltered seaward reefs ; also found in bays . Often schools on coastal reefs .
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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Pomacanthus annularis (Bloch, 1787) (Bluering angelfish) Inhabits coastal reefs to at least 30 m . Adults often found in pairs inside caves . Juveniles settle in very shallow inshore habitats with short filamentous algae growth on rock or dead coral substrates . Feeds on spon...
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