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  • Nº1 # Date: 1999-10-08 - 11:59
  • # Max Depth: 9.5m Duration: 38mins
Diver's Notes

First ever dive. Entered off beach, swam out along rocks. Did skills at 4m. Saw some squid, a blue groper, hassling us for some lunch. Stopped to watch a not quite adult ragged fin lion fish (still being hassled by groper). Saw first male port jackson shark being cleaned by some cleaner clingfish. Saw second port jackson shark (female).

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  • Surface interval:0 mins
  • Temp: Surf 23°C Bottom 16°C
  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 9 kg
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  • 8L Aluminium     210 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 6.3m
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Species Identified

Pyroteuthis margaritifera (Rüppell, 1844) (Oceanic squid)
Heterodontus portusjacksoni (Meyer, 1793) (Port Jackson shark) A common shark of the continental shelves , from close inshore at the intertidal zone to 275 m . Segregates by sex and maturity stage . Nocturnal, hides in caves and rocky gullies during the day . Feeds on benthic inver...
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Achoerodus viridis (Steindachner, 1866) (Wrasse) Found in coastal rocky areas at depths to about 40 m . Max. length for female species . Protogynous hermaphrodite .
Parvicrepis parvipinnis (Waite, 1906) (Little clingfish) Occurs in shallow weed and seagrass reefs, mostly intertidal .

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