Date: June 13, 1999
Dive Number: 570
Location: Whytecliff (Cut)
Dive Time: 29 min.
Max Depth: 125 ft.
Total Time to Date: 373 hrs. and 25 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Charlie
Visibility: 25 ft.
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Dive Comments:
Dive to collect animals for display in support of Ocean's Day. Went down at point and out along wall going deep beyond day marker. back by same route only shallower.
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***Fish:
blackeye goby, copper rockfish, 3 decorated warbonnet, kelp greenling, ling cod, puget sound rockfish, quillback rockfish, speckled sanddab.
*** Cnidarians:
crimson anemone, giant plumose anemone, solitary pink-mouth hydroids, tube-dwelling anemone, orange cup coral, swimming anemone.
*** Nudibranchs:
white dorid.
*** Echinoderms:
blood starfish, california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, daisy brittle star, gray brittle star, green sea urchin, leather starfish, northern sun starfish, pink starfish, purple starfish, rainbow starfish, red sea cucumber, slime starfish, sunflower starfish, sun starfish, vermilion starfish.
***Arthropods:
acorn barnacle, deep-water decorator crab, hairy lithode crab, bering hermit crab, kincaid's commensal shrimp, oregon crab.
*** Univalves:
leafy hornmouth.
*** Bivalves & Polyplachapora:
Lined chiton, Red chiton, swimming scallop.
*** Sponges:
boot sponge, cloud sponge, boring sponge.
*** Tunicates:
broadbased tunicate, sea peach.
*** Worms:
calcareous tubeworms,
*** Cephalopods:
1 octopus in shallower rubble on wall.
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