Feb 26, 2014 08:50
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Hi there,
The sentence is: Antes había grandes bancos de peces en todos los bajos.
You can find an example of what is meant in this diving website: http://www.naranjitobuceo.com/inmersiones.php?reg=1
Se trata del primer bajo (montaña sumergida) que nos encontramos dentro de la Reserva en dirección noreste a unas 0.4 millas de la costa.
Thank you very much
The sentence is: Antes había grandes bancos de peces en todos los bajos.
You can find an example of what is meant in this diving website: http://www.naranjitobuceo.com/inmersiones.php?reg=1
Se trata del primer bajo (montaña sumergida) que nos encontramos dentro de la Reserva en dirección noreste a unas 0.4 millas de la costa.
Thank you very much
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| 4 +1 | seamount |
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| 5 | submerged massif |
Suzanne Donnelly
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seamount
Based on the link you have sent, I think this would work. As I understand, it's basically a colloquial term for an underwater (bajo el mar) mountain.
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Charles Davis
: Excellent reference in the discussion area: clinches it for me.
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submerged massif
Located just off of the Cape of Begur is one of the Mediterranean coast's most amazing underwater rock formations. This enormous submerged massif begins at 14 metres/46 feet before dropping well below recreational depth limits down to 55 metres/180 feet. You'll head to the site by boat, tie up to the mooring buoy and descend down that same line to the top of the furió.
https://www.padi.com/scuba/scuba-diving-trips/scuba-diving-r...
From here you begin any of the three fascinating dives. To the right immediately see the towering submerged massif (Submarine Rock) creating an enormous canyon with the coastline.
http://www.bluewaterscuba.co.uk/
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Note added at 1 hr (2014-02-26 10:30:52 GMT)
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I have dived the site referred to in Menorca and it is by no means 50-100 m in height (and neither is the one referred to in Bajo de Testa).
You may well dive a seamount on a technical dive but certainly not in recreational diving.
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Note added at 1 hr (2014-02-26 10:35:26 GMT)
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Unless of course the tip of the seamount reaches up to shallower depths!!
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Note added at 2 hrs (2014-02-26 10:57:50 GMT)
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For other dive sites, a "bajo" could well refer to a rocky outcrop.
https://www.padi.com/scuba/scuba-diving-trips/scuba-diving-r...
From here you begin any of the three fascinating dives. To the right immediately see the towering submerged massif (Submarine Rock) creating an enormous canyon with the coastline.
http://www.bluewaterscuba.co.uk/
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Note added at 1 hr (2014-02-26 10:30:52 GMT)
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I have dived the site referred to in Menorca and it is by no means 50-100 m in height (and neither is the one referred to in Bajo de Testa).
You may well dive a seamount on a technical dive but certainly not in recreational diving.
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Note added at 1 hr (2014-02-26 10:35:26 GMT)
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Unless of course the tip of the seamount reaches up to shallower depths!!
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Note added at 2 hrs (2014-02-26 10:57:50 GMT)
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For other dive sites, a "bajo" could well refer to a rocky outcrop.
Discussion
"modern research recognizes seamounts as small as 50–100 m in height"
http://topex.ucsd.edu/sandwell/publications/127.pdf
I'm referring to smaller scale mountains that you find in the Mediterranean not far from the coast, these are places for diving so I think they might be smaller in scale (just guessing that they may have a different name)
Thank you!