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  • # Date: 2011-06-12 - 10:35
  • # Max Depth: 17.3m Duration: 39mins
Diver's Notes

I drove up to St Abbs, We bumped into the harbour master again who asked who asked us where we were diving and never asked us to clock out with him so as far as hes aware we are still out there. ha. good first dive dived near cathedral rock just north loads of lobsters and some massive wrasse which are really friendly. Swam around large rock passed a couple of other groups of divers. reached 100bar and we started to head back on the wrong bearing (thanks John) Ended up going across the harbour it was getting deeper and deerper. We surfaced and realised we were out by about 90degrees ;) We surface swam back to exit point. I was bursting for a number 2 nearly touching cloth!

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  • Temp: Surf 21°C Bottom 13°C
  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 16 kg
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  • Dive buddies: Michael Thompson, John Allen
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     220 → 60 bar
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  • Average depth: 11.5m
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Homarus gammarus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European lobster) The common lobster is a scavenger, and uses its pincers to manipulate food items . The sexes are separate, spawning occurs once a year in summer, and after mating, the female carries the eggs on her walking legs for a...
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Henricia oculata (Bloody Henry starfish)
Cancer pagurus (Edible crab) Adult edible crabs take a very wide range of prey species, and are important predators of molluscs . When on sediments, these crabs dig large pits in order to find food . Females reach maturity at carapace widths of 1...
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Pagurus bernhardus (common hermit crab) Eats on dead organic material. A long foreplay, to ensure the baring of the abdomen was not vain. The mating only lasts less than a minute.
Symphodus tinca (Linnaeus, 1758) (painted wrasse) Littoral, found near rocks mainly in eel-grass beds, sometimes in salty lagoons. Often gregarious. Nest of seaweed built and kept by male with one or more females spawning. Feed on sea urchins, ophiuroids, bivalves, shrimps and crabs . Rate of growth is slow . Undergoes sex reversal .
Alcyonium digitatum Linnaeus, 1758 (dead man's fingers) Colonies of dead man's fingers actively feed at various times of the day, with the polyps extended . They feed on plankton which is brought into the polyps by the generation of a water current caused by the beating of tin...
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Galathea strigosa (Galathea)

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