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  • # Date: 2011-06-03 - 14:12
  • # Max Depth: 9.6m Duration: 51mins
Diver's Notes

First dive of the year. walked round to the north side of St Mary's Island and entered their. It was the first test with my new canon G9 camera. I took lots of shots of anything in teh water and photographed my first nudibranch in UK waters. Really plesant dive we saw the Gothenburg Wreck.

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Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 19°C Bottom 12°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Wreck
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Camera: Canon - G9
  • Computer: Suunto - Vyper
  • Weights: 16 kg
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  • Dive buddies: John Allen
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     220 → 40 bar
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  • Average depth: 6.4m
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Species Identified

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)
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.
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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Crossaster papposus (Linnaeus, 1767) (spiny sun star, common sun star)
Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758 (European plaice) European plaice are active mainly at night, when they feed on molluscs and polychaete worms , which are crushed with the strong jaws . During the day they tend to lie hidden, often partially buried in the sediment . ...
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Microstomus kitt (Walbaum, 1792) (Lemon sole)
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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Doto maculata (Montagu, 1804)
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 .
Brissus brissus (Leske, 1778)
Cyclopterus lumpus Linnaeus, 1758 (Lumpsucker)

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