Date: September 5, 1998
Dive Number: 542
Location: Saltery Bay - Mermaid Cove
Dive Time: 47 min.
Max Depth: 100 ft.
Total Time to Date: 351 hrs. and 41 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 50+ ft.

Dive Profile:
When down at mermaid's float then behind statue and to the left.

Camera: Nikonos V
Film: Ektachrome 100 ASA
Strobes: 2
Lens: 28mm Standard
Photo Comments: f11 at start of dive and f8 at end.

Fish:
dogfish; copper and quillback rockfish; grunt sculpin; painted
greenlings; kelp greenlings
Cnidarians:
crimson; swimming; tubedwelling and plumose; orange cup corals
Nudibranchs:
Lots!! of golden dirona; flabellina fusca; alabaster dirona; dendronotus iris; white dorids
Echinoderms:
blood; vermillion; cookie; velcro; sunflower; rose and pink stars; daisy
brittle stars; gray brittle stars; salt and pepper cucumbers; California
cucumbers spawning!!
Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
Lined chitons
Sponges:
boot; cloud and organ pipe sponge; boring sponge; orange finger sponge
Lophophorates:
snakeshead brachiopods
Tunicates:
sea peach; strawberry tunicates; social tunicates
Worms:
calcareous tubeworms; solitary slime worms

Disclaimer:
All dives made using an Oceanic Datamax Sport dive computer and on air
unless otherwise noted. Just because I did these dive does not mean you
should.

KLW