Dive Profile:
Down in gap between pinnacles and around reef to right ending on top.Found big school of rockfish at back.
Camera: Nikonos V
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Strobes: 2
Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Photo Comments: TTL on all photos, f22
*** Fish:
blue, black, china and copper rockfish, cabezon, lingcod (including 2 egg masses), gobies, scallyhead and longfin sculpins, kelp greenlings and painted greenlings.
*** Cnidarians:
fish-eating, whitespotted, plumose and tubedwelling anemones, big! patches of zoanthids, octocoral, orange hydroids, orange and brown cup corals, lacy and fluted bryozoan.
*** Nudibranchs:
lots of clown nudibranchs, several orange peel nudibranchs, sea lemon, leopard and white dorids.
*** Echinoderms:
bllod, sunflower, striped, leather and vermillion stars, pedal and california cucumbers, red urchins.
*** Univalves:
blue top snails, red turbin snails, white cap limpets, keyhole limpets, worm snails.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
Lined and red chitons, rock scallops, swimming scallops.
*** Sponges:
boring sponge, orange puffball sponge, bristly vase sponge.
*** Lophophorates:
lacy and fluted bryozoan,northern and southern staghorn bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
broadbased, strawberry,lobed, pastel compound and sea peanut tunicates.
*** Worms:
calcareous tubeworms
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