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  • Nº22 # Date: 2008-05-21 - 13:22
  • # Max Depth: 20.6m Duration: 56mins
Diver's Notes

The Trench is an area of the reef that was excavated in order to lay cables to the Bahamas. It was never finished. This dive started with a big green moray eel hanging out under a small ledge. Finning down into the trench, we found schools and schools of fish of all sizes--even the microscopic. At the end of the trench was a drainage pipe filled with more fish. After the pipe, we drifted over the Breakers reef where I took all kinds of landscape pictures...and a lobster in a sponge. Right at the end of this dive, we found a hermit crab the size of a basketball! I'd never seen one that big before!

Dive Profile
Dive Location

  • Surface interval:68 mins
  • Temp: Surf 24°C Bottom 24°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Drift, Photo, Boat
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • BCD: Dacor - Talon
  • Boots: Akona -
  • Camera: Sony - DSC-T33
  • Computer: Uwatec - SmartCom
  • Fins: Dacor - Panther
  • Mask: Dacor - Nautilus
  • Regulator: Mares - M12 Octo
  • Regulator: Mares - M12 Proton
  • Wet suit: Mares - 3mm
  • Weights: 5 kg
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  • Jim Abernethy's Scuba Adventures confirmed the dive with parameters: 20.6m / 56mins
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Nitrox 35
  • 11L Aluminium     197 → 35 bar
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  • Average depth: 13.1m
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Species Identified

Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch, 1786) (sharpnose puffer) Inhabits reefs and marginal habitats such as seagrass beds . Diet consists of seagrass, sponges, crabs and other crustaceans, mollusks, polychaete worms, sea urchins, starfishes, hydroids and algae . Monogamous .
Gymnothorax prasinus (Richardson, 1848) (Yellow moray) Stays in holes and crevices. Feeds mainly on crabs and fish .
Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) (Five finger) Adults inhabit upper edge of outer reef slopes and inshore rocky reefs. Juveniles associated with drifting seaweed . Benthopelagic . Feed on zooplankton, benthic algae, and small invertebrates . Often in aggregations ...
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Lactophrys bicaudalis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Trunkfish) Found in clear water around coral reefs. Sometimes under ledges and near small holes . Feeds on a variety of small bottom invertebrates such as mollusks, crustaceans, starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sessile tunic...
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