Date: September 5, 1999
Dive Number: 576
Location: Saltery Bay (shore wall)
Dive Time: 53 min.
Max Depth: 101 ft
Total Time to Date: 378 hrs. 39 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: below 30'-20 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Nothing special just practice 1:1 photography.
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Dive Comments:
Went behind mermaid and then to left and back up to shoreline wall.
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***Fish***
blackeye goby, northern ronquil, speckled sanddab, kelp greenling, ling cod, painted greenling, quillback rockfish, yelloweye rockfish (lrg sub-adult), longfin sculpin, spotfin sculpin, pile perch, shiner perch, plainfin midshipman, ratfish scalyhead sculpin, roughback sculpin.
***Cnidarians***
christmas tealia, crimson anemone, giant plumose anemone, swimming anemone, tube-dwelling anemone, orange cup coral, sea pen, sea firs hydroids.
***Nudibranchs***
red-gilled aeolid, ringed dorid, white dorid, copper's dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, blood star, mottled star, purple star, rainbow star, velcro star, slime star, daisy brittle star, gray brittle star, feather star, morning sun star, rose star, sunflower star.
***Arthropods***
bering hermit crab, sponge hermit crab, decorator crab, deep-water decorator crab, red rock crab, galatheid crab, kincaid's commensal shrimp, stout coastal shrimp.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, pale top snail, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, wrinkled amphissia, hooded puncturella, dwarf moonsnail.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chiton, red chiton, swimming scallop.
***Sponges***
chimney sponge, cloud sponge, orange finger sponge, boring sponge.
***Lophophorates***
kelp-encrusting bryozoan, lacy bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
sea porks, bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, sea peach, sea peanut, strawberry tunicate, transparent tunicate, warty tunicate.
***Worms***
Calcareous tubeworm, solitary slime tubeworm.
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