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  • Nº4 # Date: 2011-01-08 - 10:30
  • # Max Depth: 18m Duration: 34mins
Diver's Notes

Very bad visibility. Rough Conditions on the surface, Strong Waves, Strong Current, BAD Visibility. We did see a few fish. Nitrox Tanks.
Air: 160bar consumed.

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  • Temp: Surf 22°C Bottom 22°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Training, Reef
  • Visibility: Bad Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Weights: 7 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Nitrox 32
  • 15L Aluminium     190 → 30 bar
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  • Average depth: 12m
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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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Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sting ray) Found over sandy and muddy bottoms, sometimes in estuaries and near rocky reefs . Feed on bottom fishes, crustaceans and mollusks. Ovoviviparous, gestation period about 4 months and 4-7 young are produced. Wings markete...
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Scorpaenopsis diabolus (Cuvier, 1829) (False stonefish) Relatively an uncommon inhabitant of rubble or weedy coralline-rock bottoms of reef flats and lagoon and seaward reefs . Benthic . Flashes its inner pectoral fins when disturbed . Can inflict a painful injury with its venomous dorsal sting. Often partly buried .
Synanceia verrucosa Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Stonefish) Most widespread stonefish . Found on sandy or rubble areas of reef flats and shallow lagoons and in small pools during low tide well camouflaged among the substrate and sometimes even covered with algae . Solitary specie...
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Pseudogramma polyacanthum (Bleeker, 1856) (Honeycomb podge)

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