Date: October 31, 1999
Dive Number: 580
Location: Whiskey Cove
Dive Time: 51 min.
Max Depth: 65 ft
Total Time to Date:
382 hrs. 01 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 10 ft
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Dive Comments:
Snorkled around to the right until we could see Deep Cove then decended and swam towards Deep Cove until we hit the reef. Surfaced and swam back to wall then descended again and followed wall back into bay.
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***Fish***
high cockscomb, saddleback gunnel, blackeye goby, pacific sanddab, whitespotted greenling, copper rockfish, scalyhead sculpin, kelp perch, pile perch, shiner perch, c-o sole, bay pipefish.
***Cnidarians***
beaded tealia, giant plumose anemone, orange cup coral, round brown cup coral, solitary pink-mouth hydroid, thread-like hydroid, sea firs hydroids, cross jellyfish.
***Nudibranchs***
bicoloured nudibranch, alabaster diron, yellow-rimmed dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, leather star, mottled star, pink star, purple star, blood star, sunflower star, morning sun star, green urchin.
***Arthropods***
acorn barnacle, thatched barnacle, dungeness crab, oregon crab, red rock crab, coon-stripe shrimp.
***Univalves***
blue top snail.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
mossy chiton, jingle shell.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod, kelp-encrusting bryozoan, lacy bryozoan, white-tuft bryozoan, wood bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
transparent tunicate, strawberry tunicate, broad-base tunicate, sea peach, sea peanut.
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