#348

with Posidonia Dive

25.8m
Depth
64 min
Duration
Nitrox 31%
Gas
Gas
220 → 40 bar · 15L cylinder
Equipment
Wetsuit · 10.5kg weights
Conditions
23°C water · 18°C bottom

Photos

Notes

We went in with a mission: find and photograph the seahorse. While in autumn there were several specimens on the site, recently there has been only one and we got fairly good indications of where it habited. So we dropped for the 26m and headed for the zone. On the way we visited the resident conger hiding in its tube and saw a lobster lurking under the fish farm bottom structures. It took perhaps 10 minutes of organized scanning of the broken nets and metal structures before Xavi finally spotted it - mission accomplished. Later we reflected on the stress these amazing creatures might have from divers, strobes and lights. Rest of the dive was typical: schools of sargos and some barracudas.

Marine Life

European congerConger congerProstheceraeus roseusProstheceraeus roseusPin-head squirt; light bulb tunicate; light bulb seasquirtClavelina lepadiformisFeather starAntedon mediterraneaCratena peregrinaCratena peregrinaRed tube wormProtula tubulariaLong-snouted seahorseHippocampus guttulatus