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Sea Snakes forage actively at night hunting exclusively by smell

into a large Green Turtle in the darkness. She was a whopper. The turtle was on a mission to find a safe refuge for the night. During this dive, I saw quite a few sleeping Parrot fish, at least four or five species. A small 70 cm Bump Headed Parrotfish was startled by my torchlight and slowly moved off into the darkness. The biggest challenge of night diving here is maintaining depth. The wall drops down vertically to 20 to 25 metres. It is so easy to venture too deep. I regularly checked my depth to maintain a maximum depth of ~15 m . Every now and again, you find yourself drifting down to 21 m or so. Omie had been given a time limit of 60 minutes for the dive but when I hit the 65 minutes mark, Omie let me know that it was not a problem so we surfaced at 73 minutes into a warm tropical evening. Then, it was time to ‘Getchyagearov’ as they say in Moscow, take a quick tub and head off to another gourmet dinner at the restaurant. I

Bright red Dardanus Hermit crab

This huge fat female Green Turtle looked like a fearsome ghost in the night lights

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DIVE LOG Australasia #418 June ‘26

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