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Dive 70, Abelard, Plymouth, England, 09/10/2006

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In 18:38, dive time 48 minutes, max depth 14.3 metres.

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Night SeaSearch with new computer & eLED C4 torch - both fine. Down just as sun setting! Didn't find wreck, but lots of reef rocks/blocks & narrow chasms on a gravel bottom. Lots of life on rocks: snakelocks anemone, ascidia mentula (solitary pink sea squirt), cushion stars, spiy starfish, red mullet, poor cod, goldsinny, whelk, diplosoma spongiforme (colonial sea squirt), haliclonal simulans (a sponge), devonshire cup coral, boring sponge, cotton spinner, sea orange, morchellium argus (?), stolonica socialis (?). And lots of photos, but not all in focus - camera shake (one hand with torch). Come up too quickly :-( maybe because dark & not much visual references.

Morchellium argus (a sea squirt, left) & Sea orange (Suberites ficus, a sponge)

Diplosoma spongiforme (colonial sea squirt)

Haliclona simulans &  Devonshire cup-coral