Date: June 11, 1999
Dive Number: 569
Location: Browning Islets (east side drift)
Dive Time: 52 min.
Max Depth: 66 ft.
Total Time to Date: 372 hrs. and 56 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: varied 15-25 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Used last 24 shots from dive 568. Too much current, to use camera on first part of dive but afterwards we ended up in a back eddy where we could take photos.
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Dive Comments:
Very nice fast drift at start which ended in a backeddy that allowed exploration. Nice dive
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***Fish:
red Irish lords, ling cod, blackeye goby, copper rockfish, kelp greenling, quillback rockfish, yellowtail rockfish,puget sound rockfish.
*** Cnidarians:
sand rose anemones, brooding anemone, bushy pink mouthed hydroids, christmas anemone, crimson anemone, fish-eating tealia, giant plumose anemone, orange cup coral, orange hydroid, pink mouthed hydroids, sea firs, sea pen, snail-fur hydroid, solitary pink-mouth hydroids, thread-like creeping network hydroids, zoanthid,
*** Nudibranchs:
big tritonia festiva(?), California arminid, alabaster diron, bicoloured nudibranch, dall's dentronotid, noble sea lemon.
*** Echinoderms:
blood starfish, california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, green sea urchin, leather starfish, rainbow starfish, red sea cucumber, red sea urchin, salt & pepper sea cucumber, white sea cucumber,
***Arthropods:
Puget Sound king crab, decorator crab, giant barnacle, kincaid's commensal shrimp, oregon crab, sharp-nose crab,
*** Univalves:
blue top snail, white cap limpet, moon snail egg cases, ringed top snail, snail-dwelling slipper shell.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
Gumboot chiton, Lined chiton, Red chiton, swimming scallop, rock scallop.
*** Sponges:
Boring sponge, sulphur sponge, red sponge, other encrusting sponges.
*** Lophophorates:
fluted bryozoan, kelp-encrusting bryozoan, lacy bryozoan, northern staghorn bryozoan, white-tuft bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate,lobed compound tunicate, orange social tunicate,pastel compound tunicate, sea porks, stalked compound tunicate, stalked orange tunicate, strawberry tunicate, warty tunicate, white-crust compound tunicate.
*** Worms:
calcareous tubeworms, cement tube worms, honeycomb tubeworms, slime tubeworms.
***Algae:
bull kelp, irredescent 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