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  • # Date: 2010-10-14 - 15:22
  • # Max Depth: 14m Duration: 43mins
Diver's Notes

5th dive in sharm Dived again with Mike. We saw several large tuna fish and a few large conga eels under parts of the wreck. Their was hundreds of toilets and baths from the cargo of the wreck. Millions of fish we saw 4-5 croc fish 3-4 moner eels 1 slowly chasing a cleaner fish around a small cave think it wanted cleaned. I got really close to a large cornet fish.... Still no turtle. saw a Ginormasfan coral along with numerous other corals. The most beautiful sights r underwater.

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  • Temp: Surf 39°C Bottom 21°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Wreck
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 13 kg
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  • 12L Aluminium     200 → 60 bar
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  • Average depth: 9.3m
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Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) (Big eye tunny) Bigeye tunas are excellent swimmers, with a number of remarkable adaptations which make them efficient predators of the ocean. Unlike many other fish, they cannot pump water over their gills, but instead, swim with their ...
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Cymbacephalus beauforti (Knapp, 1973) (Crocodile fish) Lives on sand or rubble substrates of sheltered or semi-exposed reefs to a depth of at least 8 m . Well camouflaged on reefs .
Gymnothorax meleagris (Shaw, 1795) (Guinea moray eel)
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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Fistularia corneta Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (Cornetfish)

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