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  • Nº12 # Date: 2013-05-04 - 10:45
  • # Max Depth: 15m Duration: 35mins
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Frog dive with Philip Vercoe

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  • Temp: Surf 15°C Bottom 15°C
  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Fins: Aeris - Mako
  • Mask: OceanPro - Scorpion
  • Wet suit: Atlantis - Legacy W20
  • Weights: 12 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     220 → 70 bar
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  • Average depth: 10m
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Species Identified

Pseudolabrus miles (Schneider & Forster, 1801) (Scarlet wrasse) Feeds on small mobile animals, preferably crabs. Searches for food among encrusting organisms and algal holdfasts using the large forward-jutting canine teeth to rake its food from the substratum .
Halichoeres notospilus (Günther, 1864) (Banded wrasse)
Latridopsis ciliaris (Forster, 1801) (Bastard trumpeter) Most adults form school offshore over mainly open bottom. Some adults do not school but remain around reefs. Juveniles occur inshore, usually around rocky reefs.
Odax pullus (Forster, 1801) (Butterfish) Inhabits shallow inshore waters where rocks and brown algae are abundant. Browses on algae and feeds mainly on the brown alga Carpophyllum .

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