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  • # Date: 2011-06-09 - 17:30
  • # Max Depth: 8.9m Duration: 49mins
Diver's Notes

Great dive found a treasure chest! and a key! Came across lots of sea creatures very interesting dive.

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Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 22°C Bottom 13°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef, Photo
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Camera: Canon - G9
  • Weights: 16 kg
Recent Divers in Cullercoats
Dive Shop & Buddies
  • Dive buddies: John Allen
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     230 → 30 bar
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  • Average depth: 5.9m
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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)
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.
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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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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Cyclopterus lumpus Linnaeus, 1758 (Lumpsucker)
Cereus pedunculatus (Pennant, 1777) (Daisy anemone)

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