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  • Nº3 # Date: 1999-10-09 - 12:40
  • # Max Depth: 11.3m Duration: 47mins
Diver's Notes

Saw 3 weedy sea dragons! A scorpion fish, 2 greedy blue gropers, Port Jackson shark. 1 of the sea dragons was a male with eggs. Excellent dive. Ran into some creepy jellyfish while doing compass navigation on the surface. Arrr!

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  • 12L Steel     210 → ? bar
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  • Average depth: 7.5m
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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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Phyllopteryx taeniolatus (Lacepède, 1804) (common sea dragon) These fish are slow-moving and rely on their camouflage as protection against predation; they drift in the water and with the leaf-like appendages resemble the swaying seaweed of their habitat . Individuals are observed ei...
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Epinephelus morrhua (Valenciennes, 1833) (Blue grouper) Considered rare in Tahiti but quite common in atolls . The species is easily confused with E. poecilonotus, E. radiatus, or E. tuamotuensis, three closely related deep-water groupers. Known to be ciguatoxic at Mauritius. Uncommon in local markets (probably due to it deep-water habitat).

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