Date: June 11, 1999
Dive Number: 567
Location: Snowflake Island (also called Buttertart)
Dive Time: 52 min.
Max Depth: 101 ft.
Total Time to Date: 371 hrs. and 31 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 20 ft.
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Nothing out of the ordinary this dive.
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Dive Comments:
Down behind small exposed rock and around to the right. Wall down to 100 feet. We almost went all the way around the rock. Some current near the end of the dive.
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*** Fish:
China rockfish, yellowtail rockfish, copper rockfish, black rockfish, quillback rockfish, lingcod, kelp greenlings, blackeyed gobies, scallyhead sculpins, red Irish lords.
*** Cnidarians:
plumose anemones, zoanthids, christmas anemones, crimson anemones, orange hydroid, hedgehog hydroids, clustered and solitary pink moputh hydroids, octocoral, thread hydroids, seafir hydroids, plumularia.
*** Nudibranchs:
two tritonia diomedia, opalescent nudibranchs, orange peel nudibranchs, no0ble sea lemons, white dorids, heath's dorids.
*** Echinoderms:
blood stars, sunflower stars, striped sun stars, leather stars.
***Arthropods:
giant barnacles, sharpnose crabs, red hermit crabs, other hermit crabs, decorator crabs, clown shrimp.
*** Univalves:
keyhole limpets, white cap limpets, red turbin snails, blue top snails.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
gumboot chitons, lined chitons, red chitons, rock scallops.
*** Sponges:
giant finger sponges, sulphur sponge, boring sponge, red sponge, other encrusting sponges.
*** Lophophorates:
rabbit ear bryozoans.
*** Tunicates:
stalked tunicate, stalked colonial tunicate, orange social tunicate, strawberry tunicate.
*** Worms:
calcareous tube worms, cement tube worms, honeycomb tube worms.
***Algae:
bull kelp, woody kelp, irredescent algae.

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