801 565:00
Dive: Total Bottom Time:
Dillon Rock
Site:
Shushartie Bay, Goletas Channel, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
50°51.401'N 127°51.512'W NAD83
77 ft 08/09/2005
Max Depth: Date:
0:49 7:50 AM
Bottom Time: Time:
35 ft
Visibility:
2500 psi
Tank Start:
Sea&Sea 15mm 300 psi
Lens: Tank End:
2 104 cu ft
Strobes: Tank Size:
2400 psi
Film: Tank Work:
Ektachrome VS 100
2200 psi
Photo Notes: Air Used:
Shot close focus WA
Current was strong for first 25 minutes but then died down. Went down in the same spot and found
wolfeels and octopus. Managed to circumnaigate the pinnacle again. Lots of rockfish in the kelp and a
little octopus out out on the back side.
Wolf-eel, Ratfish, Blackeye goby, Northern ronquil, Kelp greenling, Ling cod, Painted greenling,
Striped seaperch, Black rockfish, China rockfish, Copper rockfish, Puget Sound rockfish, Quillback
rockfish, Tiger rockfish, Vermilion rockfish, Yellowtail rockfish, Longfin sculpin, Scalyhead sculpin,
Branching coralline algae, Bull Kelp, Encrusting coralline algae, Giant kelp, Iredescent algae,
Brooding anemone, Christmas tealia, Crimson anemone, Fish-eating tealia, Green surf anemone,
Plumose anemone, Swimming anemone, Zoanthid, Orange cup coral, Delicate-plumed hydroids,
Orange hydroid, Pink mouthed hydroids, Sea firs, Silver-tip hydroid, Solitary pink-mouth hydroids, Sea
pen, Giant barnacle, Flat, granular-claw hermit crab, Red hermit crab, Puget Sound king crab, Sharp-
nose crab, Fluted bryozoan, Kelp-encrusting bryozoan, Lacy bryozoan, Leather bryozoan, Rabbit ear
bryozoan, Pacific octopus, Gumboot chiton, Lined chiton, Mossy chiton, Kelp-dwelling limpet, Rough
keyhole limpet, White cap limpet, Swimming scallop, Rock Scallop, Blue top snail, Leafy hornmouth,
Ringed top snail, Pinto Abalone, Red turbin snail, Alabaster diron, California sea cucumber, Red sea
cucumber, Blood starfish, Leather starfish, Daisy brittle star, Morning sun starfish, Sunflower starfish,
Red sea urchin, Hermit crab sponge, Lobed compound tunicate, White-crust compound tunicate,
Broad-base tunicate, Sea peach, Stalked, orange tunicate, Transparent tunicate, Calcareous
tubeworm, Parchment tubworms, Slime worm, Solitary slime worm
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