Date: March 24, 2000
Dive Number: 594
Location: Steep Island
Dive Time: 39 min.
Max Depth: 107 ft
Total Time to Date: 393 hrs. 26 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 50 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Shot full roll, TTL seemed to be quenching strobes most of the time long before full power dump.
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Dive Comments:
The normal Steep Island dive starting at the north end and going south. Started down at the bottom in the tube worms and worked our way south and up during the dive. Lots of good crevices to look in.
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***Fish***
kelp greenling, ling cod, whitespotted greenling (one very nice red one), quillback rockfish, tiger rockfish, longfin sculpin, scalyhead sculpin.
***Cnidarians***
christmas tealia, crimson anemone, strawberry anemone, orange cup coral, orange hydroid, ostrich-plume hydroid, pink mouthed hydroids, sea firs hydroids, white hydroid.
***Nudibranchs***
monterey sea lemon, ringed dorid.
***Echinoderms***
creeping pedal cucumber, pink creeping pedal sea cucumber, red sea cucumber, white sea cucumber, blood star, rainbow star, daisy brittle star, morning sun star, red urchin.
***Arthropods***
giant barnacle, hairy lithode crab, puget sound king crab, decorator crab, greenmark hermit crab.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, wrinkled amphissia, china hat limpet, rough keyhole limpet.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
lined chiton, mossy chiton, swimming scallop, rock scallop, jingle shell, northwest ugly clam.
***Sponges***
aggregate vase sponge, boring sponge, crumb-of-bread sponge, sulphur sponge, tennis ball sponge, yellow finger sponge, cloud sponge.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod (very large), northern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
horse-shoe tunicate, light-bulb tunicate, strawberry tunicate, warty tunicate, bristly tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tubeworms, slime tubeworms, parchment tubeworms.
***Algae***
wood kelp, red algae, bull kelp, iridescent 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