Date: July 1, 1999
Dive Number: 571
Location: Saltery Bay (deep wall)
Dive Time: 49 min.
Max Depth: 130 ft
Total Time to Date:
374 hrs. 14 min.
Visibility: Below 50 ft - 50 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes
Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Nothing to note.
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Dive Comments:
Down float at mermaid and then to wall behind. Along wall to right and then back up to shoreline wall and bay.
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***Fish***
lingcod, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, decorator warbonnet, kelp greenling, grunt sculpin, painted greenling, scalyhead sculpins, shinner perch, snake pricklebacks, small flatfish.
***Cnidarians***
crimson anemones, plumose anemones, tubedwelling anemones, orange cup corals, water jellyfish.
***Nudibranchs***
lots of clown nudibranchs, red gilled aeolids, lepoard dorid, sea lemons, alabaster nudibranch.
***Echinoderms***
cookie stars, slime stars, velcro stars, gray brittle stars, rose stars, sunflower stars, California cucumbers, pedal cucumbers, feather stars.
***Arthropods***
decorator crabs, galithide crabs, hairy lithode crabs, spot prawns, kinkaids shrimp, red rock crabs, bering hermit crabs.
***Univalves***
pale top snail, keyhole limpets.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
swimming scallops, lined chitons, mossy chitons.
***Sponges***
boot sponges, cloud sponges, boring sponge, orange finger sponge, unkn white finger sponge (deep).
***Lophophorates***
encrusting bryozoans, lacy bryozoans.
***Tunicates***
starwberry tunicates, sea peaches, broadbased tunicates, pastel compound tunicates.
***Worms***
calcareous tube worms, giant white calcareous tubeworms.
***Cephalopods***
Pacific octopus.
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