Date: May 30, 1999
Dive Number: 558
Location: Whytecliff (Cut)
Dive Time: 43 min.
Max Depth: 101 ft.
Total Time to Date:
365 hrs. and 04 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 15 ft.
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Dive Comments:
Snorkled around point to left and down in cut. Then back around marker and intro the bay. There was quite a bit of current flowing arouind the point since the tide hasd just started to flood. There was also some current underwater as we rounded the marker in the trench.
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*** Fish:
tiger rockfish, copper rockfish, yellow-tail rockfish, lingcod, kelp greenlings, painted greenling, longfin sculpin, grunt sculpin, small flatfish, pygmy poacher.
*** Cnidarians:
plumose anemones, swimming anemones, tubedwelling anemones, orange seapens, lots of comb jellys, water jellyfish, white hydriod.
*** Nudibranchs:
giant swimming nudibranch, white dorids.
*** Echinoderms:
blood stars, sunflower stars, pink stars, painted stars, striped sun star, purple stars, gray and daisy brittle starts, pedal cucumbers, California cuncumbers.
***Arthropods:
dungoness crabs, red rock crabs, small hermit crabs, coonstripe shrimp, lebeous schrenki, small blade shrimp.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
red chitons, swimming scallops.
*** Sponges:
boring sponge, boot sponges, cloud sponges.
*** Lophophorates:
lacy bryozoan, common brachiopod, snakeshead brachiopod, rabbit ear bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
sea peaches
*** Worms:
calareous tubeworms, sebelid worms
*** Cephalopods:
a large number od stubby squid eggs under a ledge!
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