Date: June 10, 1999
Dive Number: 565
Location: Browning Wall
Dive Time: 46 min.
Max Depth: 125 ft.
Total Time to Date: 370 hrs. and 46 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 25-30 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 28mm Standard
Film: Extachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Strobes more or less centered, shot at 2-3 feet and f8, TTL quenched strobes 305 of the time. Most shots flat against wall due to vis but did try some with water background.
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Dive Comments:
Dive was not at slack (planned that way) but little current. moved from south to north along wall. dropped deep to start then spent most of the dive above 60 feet.
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*** Fish:
Puget Sound rockfish, quillback rock fish, big schools of small yellowtail rock fish, red irish lord, kelp greenlings, China rockfish, small sculpins, lingcod, maybe widow rockfish.
*** Cnidarians:
walls of plumose anemones, crimson anemones, orange hydroid, snail fur hydroid, solmissus jellyfish, soft coral, orange cup corals.
*** Nudibranchs:
orange peel nudibranchs, opalescent nudibranch, alabaster nudibranch, janolus fuscus, nanaimo dorid, noble sea lemon.
*** Echinoderms:
blood stars, leather stars, sunflower stars, striped sun stars, basket stars,california cucumbers, orange cucumbers, pedal cucumbers, red urchins.
***Arthropods:
decorator crabs, giant barnacles, oregon crabs.
*** Univalves:
blue top snails, red turbins, kethole limpets.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
gumboot chiton, lined chiton, red chiton, rock scallops.
*** Sponges:
sulphur sponge, boring sponge, red sponge other encrusting sponge.
*** Lophophorates:
rabbit ear bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
orange social tunicates, strawberry tunicates.
*** Worms:
parchment tubeworms, calcareous tube worms, cement tubeworms, honeycomb tube worms.
***Algae:
bull kelp, woody kelp, irredescnet algae.
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