Date: December 5, 1999 Dive Number: 583
Location: Miller Rock
Dive Time: 45 min.
Max Depth: 108 ft
Total Time to Date: 383 hrs. 56 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 75 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Would have been better to use 1:1 on this dive since many of the subject were just a bit too small for 1:2.
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Dive Comments:
Small exposed island north west of Egmont. We went in on the west edge and swan around to the southeast. Looked like it was quite a deep wall, stepping down out of sight. Not many fish.
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***Fish***
blackeye goby, northern ronquil, kelp greenling, whitespotted greenling, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish.
***Cnidarians***
crimson anemone, plumose anemone, sea firs hydroids, solitary pink-mouth hydroid.
***Nudibranchs***
opalescent nudibranch, red-gilled aeolid, alabaster diron, noble sea lemon.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, pink creeping pedal sea cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, pink star, purple star, rainbow star, vermilion star, daisy brittle star, gray brittle star, feather star, morning sun star, northern sun star, rose star, sunflower star, green urchin.
***Arthropods***
acorn barnacle, bering hermit crab, deep-water decorator crab, red rock crab, galatheid crab, kincaid's commensal shrimp, stilletto shrimp.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, pale top snail, wrinkled amphissia, leafy hornmouth.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chiton, red chiton, rock scallop, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
chimney sponge, boring sponge.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod, kelp-encrusting bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
pastel compound tunicate, broad-base tunicate, white broad-based tunicate, sea peach, strawberry tunicate, transparent tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tubeworms.
***Algae***
laminaria.
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