Date: September 4, 1999
Dive Number: 575
Location: Saltery Bay, (Deep Wall)
Dive Time: 53 min.
Max Depth: 133 ft
Total Time to Date: 377 hrs. 46 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: Below 30'-30 ft
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Dive Comments:
Down at marker and over to mermain then down deep wall to the right. Came back up over sand and to shoreline wall.
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***Fish***
blackeye goby, northern ronquil, speckled sanddab, kelp greenling, ling cod, painted greenling, quillback rockfish, yelloweye rockfish (juv), longfin sculpin, spotfin sculpin, pile perch, shiner perch, plainfin midshipman, ratfish.
***Cnidarians***
christmas tealia, crimson anemone, giant plumose anemone, swimming anemone, tube-dwelling anemone, orange cup coral, sea pen, sea firs hydroids.
***Nudibranchs***
red-gilled aeolid, ringed dorid, white dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, blood star, mottled star, purple star, rainbow star, velcro star, slime star, daisy brittle star, gray brittle star, feather star, morning sun star, rose star, sunflower star.
***Arthropods***
bering hermit crab, sponge hermit crab (5), decorator crab, deep-water decorator crab, red rock crab, galatheid crab, kincaid's commensal shrimp, stout coastal shrimp.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, pale top snail, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, wrinkled amphissia, hooded puncturella.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chiton, red chiton, swimming scallop.
***Sponges***
chimney sponge, cloud sponge, orange finger sponge, boring sponge.
***Lophophorates***
kelp-encrusting bryozoan, lacy bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
sea porks, bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, sea peach, sea peanut, strawberry tunicate, transparent tunicate, warty tunicate.
***Worms***
Calcareous tubeworm, solitary slime tubeworm.
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