Out first dive in the Atlantic Ocean, near Madeira island in Portugal, quite close to Funchal.
Dive Club - Madeira Dive Point
Dive type - boat dive
Dive Site - Lazareto
Max depth - 30-35m
Bottom temperature - 23.3 C
Air temperature - 25 C
Equipment - GoPro 10
An interesting note - the water seemed really blue, that made post-processing of photo and video materials a little more difficult, that earlier, and only truly professional lighting could give a better picture. Marine creatures in the ocean are larger than their Mediterranean counterparts, and also more crowdy.
We encountered a school of barracudas, triggerfish, several curious comb groupers, a large school of sardines, zebra beams, mullets, cow breams, parrotfish, schools of damselfish, turkish wrasses, various types of sea breams, a couple of shy moray eels, sea fireworms, scorpion fish...
Arrow crabs were hiding among the sea anemones, and a careless touching of the white stinging grass-like sea fans forcing to sharply pull back your hand and keep distance from the rocks and boulders on which they grew.