Date: December 12, 1999
Dive Number: 584
Location: Poteau Cove
Dive Time: 57 min.
Max Depth: 55 ft
Total Time to Date: 384 hrs. 53 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 25-30 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Strobe probelms so only used 1 strobe most of the time.
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Dive Comments:
Down at the first float and then out to shallow wrecks and around all the wrecks. Went too far left going back but found some more artificial reefs we have not seen in a long time,
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***Fish***
blackeye goby, speckled sanddab, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, kelp greenling, ling cod, longfin sculpin, scalyhead sculpin, kelp perch, pile perch, striped perch.
***Cnidarians***
giant plumose anemone, plumose anemone, swimming anemone, tube-dwelling anemone, sea firs hydroids.
***Nudibranchs***
yellow-rimmed dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, leather star, mottled star, pink star, purple star, rainbow star, velcro star, gray brittle star, feather star, sunflower star, green urchin.
***Arthropods***
acorn barnacle, bering hermit crab, deep-water decorator crab, dungeness crab, oregon crab, coon-stripe shrimp.
***Univalves***
dwarf hairy triton.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chiton, mossy chiton, red chiton, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
orange finger sponge, boring sponge.
***Lophophorates***
spiral bryozoan, kelp-encrusting bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, strawberry tunicate, tall transparent tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous 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