Date: September 8, 1999
Dive Number: 577
Location: Octopus City
Dive Time: 47 min.
Max Depth: 74 ft
Total Time to Date: 379 hrs. 26 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 30 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Continued 1:1 practice, nothing out of the ordinary TTL use on all photos.
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Dive Comments:
Found cable in 5" of water and followed out to octopus dens. then went a bit deeper and then retun to shore by way of small sailboat wreck.
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***Fish***
ratfish, blackeye goby, northern ronquil, kelp greenling, ling cod, painted greenling, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, shiner perch, bay pipefish.
***Cnidarians***
giant plumose anemone, crimson anemone, swimming anemone, orange cup coral, sea pen.
***Nudibranchs***
red-gilled aeolid, white dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, mud star, purple star, rainbow star, slime star, vermilion star, gray brittle star, feather star, rose star, sunflower star, green urchin, red urchin.
***Arthropods***
bering hermit crab, red rock crab, kincaid's commensal shrimp, decorator crab.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, hooded puncturella.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chiton, mossy chiton, red chiton, swimming scallop, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
orange finger sponge, white finger-clump sponge, boring sponge.
***Lophophorates***
lacy bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, sea peach, sea peanut, strawberry tunicate, transparent tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tubeworm, 2 pronged tubeworm, solitary slime worm.
***Cephalopods***
pacific octopus (2)
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