Date: June 8, 1999
Dive Number: 561
Location: Seven Tree Island
Dive Time: 53 min.
Max Depth: 78 ft.
Total Time to Date: 367 hrs. and 33 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: below 25 feet - 25 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Kodak, Extachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Tried new Kodak film, seemed to work well. Strobes now worked fine. (Note: after developing film I am quite happy with this compared to Velvia)
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Dive Comments:
Dropped off behind the island and dove around with the island on the right. Surfaced at the other end of the island.
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*** Fish:
red Irish lords, black rockfish, copper rockfish, kelp greenlings, scalyhead sculpin, Puget Sound rockfish.
*** Cnidarians:
soft coral, brooding anemones, orange cup coral, plumose anemones, orange hydroid, seafir hydroid, snailfir hydroid, clustered pink mouth hydroids, pink mouth hydroids, white hydroids, thread hydroids, plumularia.
*** Nudibranchs:
orange peel nudibranch, doto, tritonia festive (rose coloured), opalescent nubibranch, noble sea lemon.
*** Echinoderms:
blood star, sunflower star, striped sun star, daisy brittle stars, basket stars, yellow sea spiders on soft coral, leather stars, california cucumbers, orange cucumbers, white cucumbers, red urchins, purple urchins.
***Arthropods:
Oregon crabs, giant barnacles.
*** Univalves:
blue top snail, slipper shell, keyhole limpet, shield limpet.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
red chitons, lined chitons, rock scallops, swimming scallops.
*** Sponges:
sulphur sponge, other encrusting sponge, boring sponge, red encrusting sponge
*** Lophophorates:
lacy bryozan, rabbit ear bryozoan, northern staghorn bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
pastel compound tunicates, stalked compound tunicate, sea porks, warty tunicates, lobed tunicates.
*** Worms:
calcareous tubeworms, cement tubeworms, honeycomb worms.
***Algae:
bull kelp, irredescent algae, woody kelp
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