Date: June 9, 1999
Dive Number: 562
Location: Mary Rock (near Berry Island)
Dive Time: 50 min.
Max Depth: 107 ft.
Total Time to Date: 368 hrs. and 23 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: below 25 feet - 25 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Extachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
More testing Extachrome VS, poor vis shallower with large chunks in water that may show up on film.
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Dive Comments:
Small rock visible above water, went down and around to right, slope through kelp then wall to 105 feet. Lots of crevices and deep cracks. Lots of large boulders beyond base of the wall. Everything seemed really big here.
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*** Fish:
big black rockfish, China rockfish, quilback rockfish, copper rockfish, Puget Sound rockfish, kelp greenlings, scalyhead sculpin, blackeye gobies, juv yellowtail rockfish.
*** Cnidarians:
brooding anemones (some orange),plumose anemones, christmas anemones, orange cup coral, sea fir hydroids, orange seapens, orange hydroids, snail fir hydroids, thread hydroids, cluster pink mouth hydroids, solitary pink mouth hydroids, octocoral, soft coral.
*** Nudibranchs:
clown nudibranchs, orange peel nudibranchs, heath's dorids(eating sulphur sponge), noble sea lemon, opalescent nudibranch, flabellina fusca, alabaster nudibranch, dendronotus dalli.
*** Echinoderms:
blood stars, spiny stars, sunflower stars, slime star, leather star, painted star, basket star, mottled star, striped sun star, rose star, vermillion star, puffy vermillion star, California cucumber, pedal cucumber, orange cucumber, white cucumber, red urchins, green urchin.
***Arthropods:
Oregon crab, giant barnacle, red hermit crab, decorator crab, orange hairy lithode crab.
*** Univalves:
blue top snail, ring top snail, slipper shell, keyhole limpet, shield limpet, hooded puncturella, red turbin snail.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
rock scallops, swimming scallops, veiled chiton, mossy chiton, red chiton, lined chiton, jingle shell.
*** Sponges:
sulphur sponge, boring sponge, other encrusting sponge, red sponge.
*** Lophophorates:
lacy bryozoan, northern staghorn bryozoan, southern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan,
*** Tunicates:
orange social tunicates, pastel compound tunicates, lobed tunicates, broadbased tunicates, strawberry tunicates, dwarf stalked lighbulb tunicates, lighbulb tunicates, stalked colonial tunicates.
*** Worms:
calcareous tubeworms, spaghetti worms, parchment tubeworm, cement tubeworms, honeycomb tubeworms.
***Algae:
bull kelp, irredescent algae, woody kelp
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