Date: July 3, 1999
Dive Number: 573
Location: Saltery Bay (shoreline wall)
Dive Time: 46 min.
Max Depth: 66 ft
Total Time to Date:
375 hrs. 56 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: below 30 ft - 50 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes
Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Nothing unusual, only used a part roll.
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Dive Comments:
We went down at the mermaid float and past mermaid and along wall behind her to the left. Then over to the shoreline wall and along farther left then back to bay.
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***Fish***
ratfish, lingcod, kelp greenlings, painted greenlings, white spotted greenling, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, blackeyed gobies, sand dabs, longfin sculpin, shinner perch, pile perch.
***Cnidarians***
crimson anemones, plumose anemones, swimming anemones, sea gooseberry, water jellyfish, orange cup corals, sea fir hydroids.
***Nudibranchs***
several big dendronotus iris, cooper's dorid, red gilled aeolid, leopard dorid, aglaja (as at Egmont).
***Echinoderms***
sunflower star, vermillion stars, blood star, slime stars, gray brittle stars, velcro stars, feather stars, green urchins, red urchin, california cucumbers, salt and pepper cucumbers.
***Arthropods***
juv. Puget Sound king crab, kinkaid's shrimp, clown shrimp, decorator crab, red rock crabs, dungoness crab.
***Univalves***
blue top snails, limpets.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chitons, mossy chitons, leafy hornmouth, jingle shells.
***Sponges***
boot sponge, cloud sponge, ornage finger sponge, boring sponge.
***Tunicates***
sea peach, broadbased tunicates, warty tunicates, bristly tunicates, strawberry tunicates, pastel compound tunicates.
***Worms***
calcareous tubeworms, giant white calcareous tubeworms.
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