Date: December 4, 1999
Dive Number: 581
Location: Tree Point (Agamemnon Channel)
Dive Time: 55 min.
Max Depth: 159 ft
Total Time to Date: 382 hrs. 56 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina, Donna, Charlie
Visibility: 75 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 28mm Std.
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
f8-f5.6 at 2.25-3 ft using 2 strobes TTL quneched part of the time.
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Dive Comments:
Down at rope hanging from tree then angled to east as we went down to corals which started at 140 ft., came back up and moved back and forth at as we did safety stop.
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***Fish***
blackeye goby, painted greenling, whitespotted greenling, ling cod, quillback rockfish, yelloweye rockfish (juv), cabezon, longfin sculpin, scalyhead sculpin, kelp perch, pile perch, striped perch.
***Cnidarians***
crimson anemone, plumose anemone, swimming anemone, zoanthid, dwarf red sea fan, pink caldalabrum coral, orange cup coral, sea firs hydroids, solitary pink-mouth hydroid, fish-bone hydroid.
***Nudibranchs***
opalescent nudibranch, red-gilled aeolid, noble sea lemon, yellow-rimmed dorid, ringed dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, pink creeping pedal sea cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, pink star, purple star, rainbow star, slime star, velcro star, vermilion star, feather star, morning sun star, northern sun star, rose star, sunflower star, green urchin.
***Arthropods***
acorn barnacle, bering hermit crab, turtle crab, deep-water decorator crab, furry-leg lithode crab, galatheid crab, coon-stripe shrimp, kincaid's commensal shrimp.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, frilled dogwinkle, leafy hornmouth, pale top snail, wrinkled amphissia, rough keyhole limpet, china hat limpet.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chiton, red chiton, scaly-girdled chitons, gumboot chiton, swimming scallop, rock scallop, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
tiny vase sponge, boring sponge, orange finger sponge, chimney sponge, cloud sponge.
***Lophophorates***
rabbit ear bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
pastel compound tunicate, bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, white broad-based tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, sea peach, strawberry tunicate, transparent tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tubeworms.
***Algae***
laminaria, red algae.
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