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  • Nº19 # Date: 1997-12-30 - 06:42
  • # Max Depth: 23m Duration: 34mins
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Advanced Dive - Skills check

Underwater World. Skipper: Howard

In - 06:42
Out - 7:16
Average depth - 2.5 m
Visability - 25->, 20 m |

Mask clearing. DV Recovery. Combo recovery. Doff and don. Buddy breathing. Octo ascent. Donovan pulled my mask off when doing buddy breathing. Great dive. Saw lots of fish. Moorish Idols, Goldies, Butterfly Fish, Parrot Fish, Nudibranches, Urchins etc.

Saw fish scratching themselves on rocks, and Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse cleaniung other fish especially around the gills.

SAC bad due to octo ascent. Saw 2 x Flying Fish on the way to and from the dive site.

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  • Temp: Surf 20°C Bottom 24°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Training
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 8 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     220 → 40 bar
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  • Average depth: 15.3m
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Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839) (Bluestreak cleaner wrasse) Inhabits coral rich areas of inner lagoons and subtidal reef flats to seaward reefs . Feeds on crustacean ectoparasites and mucus of other fishes . Monogamous . A protogynous hermaphrodite . Stays in stations where oth...
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Zanclus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Moorish idol)
Parexocoetus mento (Valenciennes, 1847) (African sailfin flyingfish) Found in near-shore surface waters, never spread to open sea . Capable of leaping out of the water and gliding above the surface .

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