796 561:04
Dive: Total Bottom Time:
Snowflake
Site:
Browning Passage, Nigei Island, British Columbia
50°51.310'N 127°39.131'W NAD83
71 ft 06/09/2005
Max Depth: Date:
0:53 4:30 PM
Bottom Time: Time:
45 ft
Visibility:
2500 psi
Tank Start:
1:2 Macro 800 psi
Lens: Tank End:
2 104 cu ft
Strobes: Tank Size:
2400 psi
Film: Tank Work:
Ektachrome VS 100
1700 psi
Photo Notes: Air Used:
Nice wall with lots of life, good dive for nudibranchs. Wall is covered with plumose anemones, thus the
name. This dive is basically across browning pass from the Seven Tree Island dive. When we went
down we found a wolf eel right away almost right below the anchored skiff.
Wolf-eel, Blackeye goby, Kelp greenling, Black rockfish, China rockfish, Copper rockfish, Puget Sound
rockfish, Quillback rockfish, Yellowtail rockfish, Longfin sculpin, Red Irish lord, Scalyhead sculpin,
Branching coralline algae, Bull Kelp, Encrusting coralline algae, Giant kelp, Iredescent algae,
Brooding anemone, Christmas tealia, Crimson anemone, Fish-eating tealia, Giant plumose anemone,
Plumose anemone, Hedgehog hydroid, Orange hydroid, Ostrich-plume hydroid, Pink mouthed
hydroids, Sea firs, Snail-fur hydroid, Solitary pink-mouth hydroids, Soft coral, Acorn barnacle, Giant
barnacle, Red hermit crab, Yellow sea spiders, Gumboot chiton, Lined chiton, Mossy chiton, Kelp-
dwelling limpet, Rough keyhole limpet, Snail-dwelling slipper shell, Swimming scallop, Rock Scallop,
Blue top snail, Leafy hornmouth, Ringed top snail, Wrinkled amphissia, Pinto Abalone, Red turbin
snail, Opalescent nudibranch, Alabaster diron, Cockerel's dorid, Monterey sea lemon, Orange-peel
nudibranch, California sea cucumber, Red sea cucumber, Bat starfish, Leather starfish, Mottled
starfish, Velcro starfish, Daisy brittle star, Morning sun starfish, Sunflower starfish, Red sea urchin,
Boring sponge, Sulphur sponge, Giant finger sponge, Lobed compound tunicate, Stalked, orange
tunicate, Transparent tunicate, Calcareous tubeworm, Parchment tubworms, Slime worm
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