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  • Nº86 # Date: 2007-04-11 - 09:40
  • # Max Depth: 22.9m Duration: 39mins
Diver's Notes

Fantastic wreck penetration dive!

Loads of fish - trumpetfish, French angelfish, octopus, barracuda, moray eel, huge lobster.

Saw intact porthole, crow's nest.

Front half of wreck still intact.

Current stronger towards the end of the dive

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  • Temp: Surf 30°C Bottom 28°C
  • Dive type : Wreck
  • Visibility: Excellent Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 5 kg
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Dive Profile

  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 35 bar
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  • Average depth: 15.3m
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Species Identified

Pomacanthus paru (Bloch, 1787) (French angelfish) Common in shallow reefs. Usually in pairs, often near sea fans . Feed on sponges, algae, bryozoans, zoantharians, gorgonians and tunicates . Oviparous , monogamous . Spawning pairs are strongly territorial, with usuall...
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Aulostomus maculatus Valenciennes, 1841 (Caribbean trumpetfish) Commonly found in weedy areas and especially around reefs, where they usually swim snout-down among sea whips . A solitary ambusher of small fishes and crustaceans that lurk among branching coral or gorgonians. Often swi...
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Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832) (Barracuda)

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