Dive Profile:
Out along jetty and back, currant was quite strong.
Camera: Nikonos V
Film: Ektachrome 100 ASA
Strobes: 2
Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
*** Fish:
Big lingcod, copper rockfish, Puget Sound rockfish, striped perch, kelp perch, scalyhead sculpins.
*** Cnidarians:
Plumose anemones, christmas telias, fish eating telias, seafir hydroids
*** Nudibranchs:
white dorids, Nanaimo dorids.
*** Echinoderms:
Blood stars, sunflower stars, solaster stimpsoni, leather stars, california cucumbers, pedal cucumbers, orange cucumbers, white cucumbers, green urchins.
***Arthropods:
Kelp crabs, sharpnose crabs, lots of hermit crabs.
*** Univalves:
blue top snails, slipper snails, white cap limpets, keyhole limpets.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
Rock scallops, swimming scallops, jungle shells, red chitions, lined chitons, gumboot chitons.
*** Sponges:
boring sponge, other encrusting sponges.
*** Lophophorates:
Common brachiopods, northern and southern staghorn bryozoan, spiral bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
Strawberry tunicates, sea peanuts, orange social tunicates, broadbased tunicates.
*** Worms:
calcareous tubeworms.
*** Cephalopods:
Two octopus one that playe with our gloves.
Disclaimer:
All dives made using an Oceanic Datamax Sport dive computer
and on air unless otherwise noted.
Just because I did these dives does not mean you should.
KLW