Date: June 9, 1999
Dive Number: 564
Location: Lucan Gap (south entrance to Browning Pass)
Dive Time: 52 min.
Max Depth: 62 ft.
Total Time to Date: 370 hrs. and 00 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 25 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm C/U
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Tried close-up, shots of basket stars, compositions, plumose amemones.
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Dive Comments:
Narrow channel dove on west side moving south, not much current even at end. Dive is a shallow wall to 50-60 feet with sand & small rock bottom.
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*** Fish:
copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, Puget Sound rockfish, kelp greenlings, painted dreenlings, blackeyed gobies, scaly-head sculpins, striped perch.
*** Cnidarians:
lots of plumose anemones, orange hydroid, orange cup corals, small orange sea pens, solitary and clustered pink mouth hydroids, comb jellyfish, sea fir hydroid, snail fir hydroid.
*** Nudibranchs:
doto, small flabellina sp.,alabaster nudibranch, heath's dorid, noble sea lemon, white dorid.
*** Echinoderms:
blood stars, leather stars, sunflower stars, fat sun star striped sun star, basket stars, california cucumbers, orange cucumbers, white cucumbers, red urchins.
***Arthropods:
Oregon crabs, kelp crab, 2 Puget Sound king crabs, giant barnacles, red hermiti crabs, other small hermit crabs.
*** Univalves:
blue top snails, slipper snails, shield limpets, white cap limpets, keyhole limpets.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
rock scallops, mopelia chitons, red chitons, lined chitons, gumboot chiton.
*** Lophophorates:
sulphur sponge, boring sponge, red sponge, other encrusting sponge.
*** Lophophorates:
lacy bryozoan, northern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan,
*** Tunicates:
orange social tunicates, pastel compound tunicates, lobed tunicates, broadbased tunicates, strawberry tunicates, sea peaches sea peanut warty tunicate.
*** 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