Date: June 8, 1999
Dive Number: 560
Location: New wall next pass over from Browning
Dive Time: 53 min.
Max Depth: 95 ft.
Total Time to Date: 366 hrs. and 40 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: below 20 ft - 20 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Still some strobe problems but improving.
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Dive Comments:
Vertical shoreline wall with lots of overhangs and crevices. not at slack but little or no current.
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*** Fish:
yellowtail rockfish, lots of Puget Sound rockfish, China rockfish, blackeyed gobies, kelp greenlings, painted greenlings, small sculpins, two BIG decorator warbonnets.
*** Cnidarians:
red stalked jellyfish, fish eating anemones, whitespotted anemones, plumonse anemones, orange cup corals, white hydroids, octocorals, orange seapens, seafir hydroids, plumularia, solitary pink mouth hydroids.
*** Nudibranchs:
orange peal nudibranch, cockerel's dorid, lots of opalescent nudibranchs, dendronotus diversecolor, flabellina fusca, flabellina trilineata, California berthella.
*** Echinoderms:
spiny stars, blood stars, sunflower stars, striped sun stars, daisy brittle stars, leather stars, painted stars, red urchins.
***Arthropods:
tube dwelling hermit crab, ornage hairly lithode crabs, small shrimp, red hermit crab.
*** Univalves:
abalones, keyhole limpets, shield limpets, blue top snails.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
lined chitons, red chitons, BIG rock scallops, swimming scallops.
*** Sponges:
boring sponge.
*** Lophophorates:
rabbit ear bryozoan, leather bryozoan, lacy bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
strawberry tunicates, warty tunicates.
*** Worms:
unknown sabelid worm, calcareous tubeworms, slime tube worms, cement tubeworms, honeycomb tube worms
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