Smmcdonald
Ecuador
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Nº115
Date: 2018-06-14 - 09:46
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Max Depth: 25m Duration: 47mins
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- Temp: Surf 29°C Bottom 27°C
- Dive type : Recreational
- Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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- Weights: 7.3 kg
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Recent Divers in Wolf Island, Galapagos
Dive Shop & Buddies
Dive with William Saltos from Explorer Ventures Liveaboard Diving
Dive buddies:
Jennifer McDonald,
Tracy Newton,
James Shawver,
Cathy Dingman,
Dennis Zullig,
Johnny Kerr,
John Dingman
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Dive Profile
- 1. Nitrox 32
- 12L Aluminium 201 → 18 bar
- Average depth: 18.3m
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Species Identified
Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck, 1765) (Unicornfish)
Kyphosus analogus (Gill, 1862) (Blue-bronze sea chub)
Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith, 1834) (scalloped hammerhead)
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Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass and Heller, 1905) (Galapagos shark)
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Seas were still calm, with a slight, 1-foot chop: partly cloudy skies, but clearer and a tad warmer than this morning. We took our routine position on the wall near the drop-off at around 80'. Surge was noticeable, but manageable, just as the other dives around Wolf Island. A green sea turtle swam about: I saw him no less than three times during our dive; another lay on the bottom sleeping with his head tucked between two rocks. Schools of scalloped hammerheads and galapagos sharks were more active now than during our earlier dive, swimming much closer to us than at Landslide. Large schools of scissortail chromis and pacific creolefish swam about above the ledge. A solitary scrawled filefish and several trumpetfish were among the other more abundant species on and around the boulders. Toward the end of our dive, a large school of blue-bronze chubs scoured the rocks picking off pieces of coral, while several hammerheads and smaller fishes circled above. We wrapped up the dive, had lunch and headed over to Darwin Island for our afternoon dives, a 2 1/2 hour transit.