Date: June 10, 1999
Dive Number: 566
Location: Double Bay Wall
Dive Time: 53 min.
Max Depth: 84 ft.
Total Time to Date: 371 hrs. and 39 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 25 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Normal macro set-up and dive, only probelm might have been that there was a lot of large bits in the water.
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Dive Comments:
Wall along the east side of Hurst Island, north of the resort. Sloping wall to sand at about 65 feet.
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*** Fish:
yellowtail rockfish, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, China rockfish, kelp greenlings, longfin sculpins, scalyhead sculpins.
*** Cnidarians:
crimson anemones, painted anemones, plumose anemones, orange seapens, seafir hydroids, solmissus jellyfish, plumularia.
*** Nudibranchs:
tritonia festiva, opalescent nudibranch.
*** Echinoderms:
blood stars, puffy vermillion stars, vermillion stars, leather stars, sunflower stars, striped sun stars, fat sun stars.
***Arthropods:
sponge hermit crab, sharpnose crabs, Oregon crabs, giant barnacles.
*** Univalves:
abalones, ring top snails, blue top snails, slipper snails, keyhole limpets, white cap limpets, shield limpets.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
rock scallops, swimming scallops, lined chitons, red chitons.
*** Sponges:
boring sponge, red sponge, other encrusting sponge.
*** Lophophorates:
rabbit ear bryozoan, lacy bryozoan.
*** Tunicates:
orange social tunicates, strawberry tunicates.
*** Worms:
calcareous tubeworms, cement tube worms, honeycomb tubeworms, slime tubeworms.
***Algae:
bull kelp, irredescent algae.
*** Cephalopods:
one octopus (medium size)
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