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  • Nº8 # Date: 2013-01-08 - 08:00
  • # Max Depth: 15m Duration: 45mins
Diver's Notes

"The Nets" - Saw a lot of turtles, lobsters, a lionfish, a baby spotted dogfish. Surfaced early with other diver who was low on air and had a moment of panic when we didn't see the boat right away but it eventually showed up and all was good!

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  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 4 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 40 bar
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  • Average depth: 10m
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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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Eretmochelys imbricata (LINNAEUS) 1766 (Hawksbill Turtle) Hawksbills may take decades to mature and it could be between 20 to 40 years before they are ready to breed . Upon reaching sexual maturity, a female will typically lay up to five clutches of around 100 to 140 eggs in one ...
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lesser-spotted catshark)
Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) (Red lionfish)

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