Doodles
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About this site
Doodles is an open water reef dive at Ponta do Ouro, with depths of 15 to 18 metres.
The site is known for its friendly potato bass and for mantas, rays and ghost pipefish moving through, along with schools of snapper and dusky sweepers. Divers have also reported devilfire fish, ribbontail rays, blue spotted stingrays, hermit crabs, eels, white-tip reef sharks and octopus here.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
Reef sharkReef sharkReported here · unconfirmed
StingrayStingrayReported here · unconfirmed
Bull SharkCarcharhinus leucasReported here · unconfirmed
Tiger SharkGaleocerdo cuvierReported here · unconfirmed
Loggerhead Sea TurtleCaretta carettaReported here · unconfirmed
Allard's AnemonefishAmphiprion allardiReported here · unconfirmed
Whale SharkRhincodon typusReported here · unconfirmed
Laced MorayGymnothorax favagineusReported here · unconfirmed
yellow-blocked nudibranchHalgerda wasinensisReported here · unconfirmed
Manta rayManta rayReported here · unconfirmed
Ghost pipefishGhost pipefishReported here · unconfirmed
SnapperSnapperReported here · unconfirmed
OctopusOctopusReported here · unconfirmed
Mantis shrimpMantis shrimpReported here · unconfirmed
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