Date: July 3, 1999
Dive Number: 572
Location: Saltery Bay (to the right)
Dive Time: 56 min.
Max Depth: 98 ft
Total Time to Date:
375 hrs. 10 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: below 30 ft - 50 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes
Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
I only took a part roll on this dive, I could have used more.
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Dive Comments:
We snorkeled straight out from the ramp and went down past he island. We then went right along a wall with ledges until we came to a big boulder with lots of life. From there we went shallower and returned. We actually went quite a bit farther right (northwest) than I thought. It's a grwat dive and I would definately do it again.
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***Fish***
copper rockfish, 2 tiger rockfish, ratfish, blackeyed gobies, sand dabs, grunt sculpin, sailfin sculpin, painted greenling, kelp greenling, whitespotted greenlings, shiner perch, CO sole, lingcod.
***Cnidarians***
crimson anemones, swimming anemones, plumose anemones, sea gooseberrys, water jellyfish, tube-dwelling anemones, orange seapens, christmas anemones.
***Nudibranchs***
one big orange peel nudibranch! red gilled aeolid (lots), clown nudibranchs, lepoard nudibranchs, sea lemons, dendronotus iris, dendronotus diversicolor, bubble shells, taylor's seahare, spotted aglaja.
***Echinoderms***
sunflower star, striped sunstar, rose star, purple star, velcro star, painted star, California cucumber, salt & pepper cucumber, red urchin, green urchin, blood star, vermillion star, slime star, gray brittle star, feather star.
***Arthropods***
sea spiders, red rock crabs, decorator crabs, bering hermit crabs, spot prawn, coonstripe shrimp, kinkaid's shrimp, clown shrimp, galithide crabs.
***Univalves***
beatic olive snails, leafy hornmouths, pale top snails, limpets.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chitons, mossy chitons, jingle shells, swimming scallops.
***Sponges***
cloud sponges, boot sponges, boring sponge, orange finger sponge.
***Lophophorates***
encrusting bryozoans, rabbit ear bryozoan, lacy bryozoans.
***Tunicates***
sea peach, pastel compound tunicate, strawberry tunicates, horseshoe tunicate, sea peanut, warty tunicate, bristly tunicate, transparent tunicates.
***Worms***
calcareous tubeworms, giant white calcareous tubeworms, solitary slime worms, sabellid worms in the sand.
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