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  • Nº114 # Date: 2018-06-14 - 06:52
  • # Max Depth: 30.2m Duration: 49mins
Diver's Notes

Seas were calm this early in the morning: partly cloudy skies and cool. Hung out on the wall near the drop-off, first at around 90', settling at about 60' as we slowly scooted along the edge. Surge was not too strong; some anchored themselves to the rocks while I and others mainly hovered above swaying back-and-forth. Schools of scalloped hammerheads and galapagos sharks swam along the wall just below us, and over the deep a few yards away. A green sea turtle greeted us early in the dive, along with large schools of scissortail chromis and pacific creolefish. A pair of eagle rays and another single swam by a little further out off the wall. Several moray eels (mostly of the fine spotted variety) were among the rock crevices, as well as the other typical fish we have seen around Wolf Island: king angels, moorish idols, galapagos ringtail damselfish, parrotfish, wrasse--the sunset variety are particularly beautiful, hawkfish, mexican hogfish, goldrim surgeon fish, leather bass, butterfly fish, orangeside triggerfish, guineafowl puffers, trumpetfish, etc. Tucked away in the crevices were numerous urchins--spiny and pencil--and starfishes, and a few spiny lobsters. A school of razor surgeonfish skimmed along the top of the boulders, feeding along with an aggregate of other fish. Schools of jacks, bluefin trevally and other silvery fish hung out higher in the water column, over the edge. Later in the dive, the hammerheads swam closer to us, making wide circles swimming below, up the wall, and back over us.

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  • Temp: Surf 28°C Bottom 25°C
  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 7.3 kg
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  • 1. Nitrox 32
  • 12L Aluminium     200 → 28 bar
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  • Average depth: 16.7m
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Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith, 1834) (scalloped hammerhead) Forming impressively large schools, female scalloped hammerheads gather in the Gulf of California during the day, around underwater mountains known as seamounts, where they perform a wide range of poorly-understood behavio...
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Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass and Heller, 1905) (Galapagos shark)
Chelonia mydas Linnaeus 1758 (Green Turtle) Green turtles are long-lived and may take up to 59 years to reach sexual maturity Undertaking tremendous feats of navigation, adults return to the same beach to breed each season, part of the population in Brazil astonish...
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Chromis atrilobata Gill, 1862 (Damselfish)
Paranthias colonus (Valenciennes, 1846) (Creolefish)
Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790) (Bishop ray) Large groups of spotted eagle rays may be seen outside of the breeding season. These rays swim close to the surface and can occasionally be seen jumping clear out of the water (known as 'breaching') . Females give birth to...
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Gymnothorax dovii (Günther, 1870) (Moray)
Holacanthus passer Valenciennes, 1846 (Angelfish)
Zanclus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Moorish idol)
Stegastes beebei (Nichols, 1924) (Damselfish) Inhabits coral and rocky reefs . Somewhat territorial, chases away small intruders . Omnivorous, grazes on algae and nibbles at small crustaceans and the tentacles of anemones .
Thalassoma grammaticum Gilbert, 1890 (Sunset wrasse) A solitary species found in reefs subjected to surges . Moves over great distances to feed on hard-shelled invertebrates .
Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Bleeker, 1855) (Coral hawkfish)
Cirrhitus rivulatus Valenciennes, 1846 (Giant hawkfish)
Bodianus diplotaenia (Gill, 1862) (Hogfish)
Acanthurus nigricans (Linnaeus, 1758) (backsurgeonfish)
Dermatolepis dermatolepis (Boulenger, 1895) (leather bass)
Johnrandallia nigrirostris (Gill, 1862) (Blacknosed butterflyfish)
Sufflamen verres (Gilbert & Starks, 1904) (Orangeside triggerfish)
Arothron meleagris (Lacepède, 1798) ('opu hue)
Aulostomus chinensis (Linnaeus, 1766) (Chinese trumpetfish) Found in clear, shallow water , in rocky and coral areas of protected and seaward reefs . Benthopelagic . Feeds on small fishes and shrimps . A slow-moving fish relying partly on stealth and camouflage to sneak up on unsuspecting prey. Often darts down vertically on its prey. Usually solitary .
Eucidaris thouarsii (Valenciennes, 1846)
Pentaceraster cumingi (Gray, 1840)
Nidorellia armata (Gray, 1840) (Chocolate chip sea star)
Panulirus penicillatus (Olivier, 1791) (pronghorn spiny lobster)
Prionurus laticlavius (Valenciennes, 1846) (Razor surgeonfish)
Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833 (Bayad)

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