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Dive 165, Viking Bay, Andaman Sea, Thailand, 11/04/2009

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In 13:10, dive time 55 minutes, max depth 18 metres.

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Down with Marco (as #164) & swim to artificial reef of concrete (?) cubes covered in life, including large & very small nudibranchs, with lots of large specimens of fish, including puffer. Also see black & white striped seasnake, large clams, turtle, 'nemo' fish, shoal of batfish. Practise SMB deployment at end of dive (after 5m safety stop) - good. Nudibranch is chromodoris anulata. Porcelain crab disguised among anemone with Clarks anemone fish.

Hawkfish?

Greasy Grouper

Ringed Nudibranch (chromodoris annulata)

Ringed Nudibranch (chromodoris annulata)

Lizardfish

Fiveline Cardinalfish (Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus) among staghorn coral

Banded Sea Krait

Magnificent Sea Anemone with Clark's Anemonefish (nemo)

Giant clam