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Monday, May 17, 2010

Dive #81 : Paluarte, Southern Leyte, Philippines

This site was by far the lousiest of the day, but it still offered some nice stuff that you only rarly see, such as the always fascinating manta shrimp. Also scorpionfish was a nice spot here, and I am becoming better and better with "muckking", spotting shrimps from their holes, nudie branches, moray eels and other small/hiding/carmoflaged stuff.

This was a drift dive, the current moving us about a quarter of a mile.

Lots of fishtraps set on the bottom, boring. Luckily they were mostly empty.

entry time 14:31, max depth 24,4m, divetime 40min, water 28 deg celcius, Nitrox EANx34

Nitrox seems to work fine, no difference in taste, a bit more relaxing dives since no worries about deco stops in 18-30depth. The real benefit is marginal, since the tank runs empty far before deco limits anyway. The biggest benefit at this point seems to be that I don't get that tired, even after 3 dives a day, waking 5:30AM three days in a row. Thta IS a real benefit.

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