Date: September 9, 1999
Dive Number: 578
Location: Saltery Bay (behind mermaid and shoreline wall)
Dive Time: 52 min.
Max Depth: 109 ft
Total Time to Date: 380 hrs. 18 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 25 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Continue 1:1 practice.
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Dive Comments:
Down float and then behind mermaid and left fro a short distance and then right along the wall behind the mermaid. Finally along shoreline wall into bay.
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***Fish***
ratfish, blackeye goby, northern ronquil, speckled sanddab, kelp greenling, ling cod, painted greenling, pygmy poacher, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, yelloweye rockfish (2juv, 1 sub-adult), longfin sculpin, roughback sculpin, spotfin sculpin, shiner perch, plainfin midshipman.
***Cnidarians***
beaded tealia, christmas tealia, crimson anemone, giant plumose anemone, swimming anemone, tube-dwelling anemone, orange cup coral, sea firs hydroids, sea pen.
***Nudibranchs***
red-gilled aeolid, yellow-rimmed dorid, white dorid, ringed dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, white sea cucumber, cookie star, mottled star, puffy blood star, purple star, rainbow star, slime star, velcro star, vermilion star, gray brittle star, feather star, morning sun star, northern sun star, rose star, sunflower star, green urchin.***Arthropods***
bering hermit crab, sea spider, decorator crab, deep-water decorator crab, dungeness crab, galatheid crab, clown shrimp (1 huge), coon-stripe shrimp, kincaid's commensal shrimp.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, dwarf moon snail, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, pale top snail, wrinkled amphissia, hooded puncturella.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chiton, red chiton, swimming scallop, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
orange finger sponge, chimney sponge, cloud sponge.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod, snakeshead brachiopod, lacy bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
sea porks, bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, sea peach, sea peanut, strawberry tunicate, warty tunicate, transparent tunicate.
***Worms***
3 lined ribbon worm, calcareous tubeworm, solitary slime worm, sebellid worm.
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