Date: June 11, 1999
Dive Number: 568
Location: New site to south of God's Pocket
Dive Time: 33 min.
Max Depth: 88 ft.
Total Time to Date: 372 hrs. and 04 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 20 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Poor dive site mostly sand bottom, there was also considerable current, took some worm photos. Only shot 12 exposures.
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Dive Comments:
Went down by point and over small wall looking for offshore pinnacle (never found it). Mostly sand bottom, not the best dive. Will not be added to the resort's list of dives.
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***Fish
blackeye goby, copper rockfish, puget sound rockfish, quillback rockfish, red irish lord, sailfin sculpin, yellowtail rockfish,
*** Cnidarians:
christmas anemone,crimson anemone, orange cup coral, orange hydroid, pink mouthed hydroids, plumose anemone, sea firs, sea pen, silver-tip hydroid, solitary pink-mouth hydroids, zoanthid.
*** Nudibranchs:
alabaster diron, noble sea lemon,white dorid.
*** Arthropods:
hermit crabs in dentalium shells, red rock crab.
*** Univalves:
blue top snail, moon snail eggs.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
Lined chiton, Red chiton, rock scallop.
*** Sponges:
boring sponge, other encrusting sponges.
*** Lophophorates:
kelp-encrusting bryozoan, lacy bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate,pastel compound tunicate, strawberry tunicate.
*** Worms:
lots of varoious sabellid worms in sand.
*** Algae:
bull kelp, laminaria.
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