Date: June 9, 1999
Dive Number: 563
Location: Castle Gap
Dive Time: 45 min.
Max Depth: 68 ft.
Total Time to Date: 369 hrs. and 08 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 10-15 ft.
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Dive Comments:
Drift dive through channel, very nice wall bottoming out at 65 feet.
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*** Fish:
kelp greenlings, china rockfish, black rockfish, copper rockfish, Puget Sound rockfish, decorator warbonnet.
*** Cnidarians:
plumose anemones, christmas anemones, crimson anemones,orange cup coral, sea fir hydroids, orange hydroids, snail fir hydroids, cluster pink mouth hydroids, solitary pink mouth hydroids, octocoral, soft coral, encrusting hydrocoral.
*** Nudibranchs:
orange peel nudibranchs, heath's dorids, noble sea lemon, opalescent nudibranch, flabellina fusca, alabaster nudibranch.
*** Echinoderms:
blood stars, spiny stars, sunflower stars, slime star, leather star, painted star, basket stars (lots), mottled star, striped sun star, rose star, vermillion star, puffy vermillion star, California cucumber, pedal cucumber, orange cucumber, white cucumber, red urchins.
***Arthropods:
Oregon crab, giant barnacle, red hermit crab, decorator crab, orange hairy lithode crab.
*** Univalves:
blue top snail, slipper shell, keyhole limpet, shield limpet, red turbin snail.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
rock scallops, swimming scallops, mossy chiton, red chiton, lined chiton.
*** Sponges:
sulphur sponge, boring sponge, other encrusting sponge, red sponge.
*** Lophophorates:
lacy bryozoan, northern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan,
*** Tunicates:
orange social tunicates, pastel compound tunicates, lobed tunicates, broadbased tunicates, strawberry tunicates, lighbulb tunicates, stalked colonial tunicates.
*** Worms:
calcareous tubeworms, cement tubeworms, honeycomb tubeworms.
***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