Date: July 28, 1999
Dive Number: 574
Location: Whytecliff Park (Cut)
Dive Time: 53 min.
Max Depth: 102 ft
Total Time to Date: 376 hrs. 53 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 30 ft below 20 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes
Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Battery problems and light problem so I only took a few photos.
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Dive Comments:
Snorkeled to the "Cut" then went down, followed our usual path around the marker and back into the bay. It was a nice relaxing dive.
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***Fish***
blackeye goby, speckled sanddab, kelp greenling, ling cod, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, puget sound rockfish, buffalo sculpin, longfin sculpin, scalyhead sculpin, shiner perch, striped perch.
***Cnidarians***
giant plumose anemone, swimming anemone, tube-dwelling anemone, zoanthid, sea pen, water jellyfish.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, pink star, puffy blood star, purple star, rainbow star, slime star, velcro star, vermilion star, gray brittle star, feather star, sunflower star.
***Arthropods***
acorn barnacle, hairy lithode crab, dungeness crab, deep-water decorator crab, pink shrimp, spot prawn, coon-stripe shrimp.
***Univalves***
pale top snail, chinaman's hat limpet, dwarf hairy triton.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chiton, red chiton, rock scallop.
***Sponges***
boring sponge, chimney sponge, cloud sponge.
***Lophophorates***
snakeshead brachiopod, lacy bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, sea peach, strawberry tunicate, warty tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tubeworms, giant white clacareous 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