Date: April 25, 1999
Dive Number: 557
Location: Francis Peninsula
Dive Time: 55 min.
Max Depth: 104 ft.
Total Time to Date: 364 hrs. and 21 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 15 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes
Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Sensia 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Poor visibility, tired several jellyfish photos. TTL controlled exposure much of the time.
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Dive Comments:
Snorkled about 1/3 of the way through the bay and then went down. Followed wall along right edge of the bay and around the corner and down to sand bottom at 100 feet. Came back shallower along the wall and right into the shallows.
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*** Fish:
tiger rockfish, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, Puget Sound rockfish, white spotted greenlings, large schools of shinner perch in the shallows, black-eyed gobies
*** Cnidarians:
crimson anemones, plumose anemones, tube dwelling anemones, sea pens, hanging mouth jellyfish, comb jellies
*** Nudibranchs:
opalescent nudibranchs, bicoloured janolus, three lined aeolid, red aeolid, taylor's sea hare, bubble shell, white dorids, yellow edged dorids
*** Echinoderms:
blood stars, vermilion stars, sunflower stars, dawson sun stars, pink stars, feather stars, pedal cucumbers, white cucumbers, california cucumbers
***Arthropods:
hermit crabs, red rock crabs, dungoness crabs
*** Univalves:
shield limpets, hairy tritons
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
red chitons, lined chitons
*** Sponges:
big boot sponges, orange finger sponges, encrusting sponges, boring sponge
*** Lophophorates:
rabbit ear bryozoan, kelp encrusting bryozoan
*** Tunicates:
strawberry tunicates, broadbased tunicates
*** Worms:
3 lined ribbon worms, calcareous tubeworms, giant white calcareous tubeworms
*** Cephalopods:
1 octopus in a den (about 6-8 feet arm span)
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