Date: June 8, 1999
Dive Number: 559
Location: New wall in Browning Pass
Dive Time: 43 min.
Max Depth: 121 ft.
Total Time to Date: 365 hrs. and 47 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: below 35ft - 25 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Some problems with strobes firing.
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Dive Comments:
Went down by shore in 35 feet of water then out over sloping rubble to about 75 feet. At 75 feet a wall started and was covered with plumose anemones. Went down the wall to 120 feet, it went down farther than that.
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*** Fish:
Puget Sound rockfish, yellowtail rockfish, quillback rockfish, kelp greenlings, painted greenlings, blackeyed gobies.
*** Cnidarians:
plumose anemones, fish eating anemones, orange sea pens (some pulled into sand),white spotted anemones, orange cup corals, zoanthinds, seafir hydroids, plumularia, solitary pinkmouth hydroids.
*** Nudibranchs:
dendronotus diversicolor, dendronotus dali, flabellina fusca, flabellina vercossa, opalescent nubibranch, flabellina trilineata.
*** Echinoderms:
blood stars, painted stars, vermillion stars, puffy vermillion star, sunflower stars, striped sun stars, daisy brittle stars, 2 basket stars, leather stars, spinny star, orange cucumbers, pedal cucumbers, california cucumbers, white cucumbers.
***Arthropods:
small hermit crabs, orange hairy lithode crabs, small shrimp.
*** Univalves:
blue top snails, keyhole limpets, shield limpets, ring top snails.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
red chitons, lined chitons, rock scallops (big), swimming scallops.
*** Sponges:
boring sponge, some encrusting sponge.
*** Lophophorates:
leather bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoans, lacy bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
strawberry tunicates, broadbased tunicates, warty tunicates.
*** Worms:
calcareous tubeworms, slime tubeworms, unknown sabelid worm, cement tubeworms, honeycomb tubeworms.
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