Date: March 24, 2000
Dive Number: 595
Location: Row & Be Damned (night dive)
Dive Time: 48 min.
Max Depth: 78 ft
Total Time to Date: 394 hrs. 14 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 40+ ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:2 Macro
Film: Velvia 50 ASA
Photo Comments:
Not quite a full roll, tried to get several animals on a background of red sponge.
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Dive Comments:
We went down in a backeddy current which was stronger than the actually current we eventually got into. Drifted north for the duration of the dive, spending the last 15 min or so shallow.
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***Fish***
kelp greenling, ling cod, whitespotted greenling, copper rockfish, tiger rockfish, quillback rockfish, buffalo sculpin, red irish lord, sailfin sculpin, scalyhead sculpin.
***Cnidarians***
brooding anemone, christmas tealia, giant plumose anemone, plumose anemone, strawberry anemone, orange cup coral, octocoral, encrusting hydrocoral, solitary pink-mouth hydroid, sea firs hydroids, white hydroid, orange hydroid.
***Nudibranchs***
dall's dentronotid, monterey sea lemon, cooper's dorid, ringed dorid, white dorid.
***Arthropods***
giant barnacle, acorn barnacle, hairy lithode crab, helmet crab, oregon crab, stilletto shrimp, other small shrimp, greenmark hermit crab.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, red sea cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, rainbow star, daisy brittle star, sunflower star, green urchin, red urchin.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, china hat limpet, hooded puncturella, rough keyhole limpet, wrinkled amphissia.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
gumboot chiton, lined chiton, mossy chiton, red chiton, swimming scallop, rock scallop, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
aggregate vase sponge, tiny vase sponge, boring sponge, orange-red encrusting sponge, sulphur sponge, tennis ball sponge, dark red encrusting sponge, cloud sponge.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod, northern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
pastel compound tunicate, bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, light-bulb tunicate, sea peanut, strawberry tunicate, tall transparent tunicate, transparent tunicate, warty tunicate.
***Worms***
unidentified long multilegged worm (photo), calcareous tube worms, slime tubeworms, swimming worms?
***Algae***
wood kelp, bull kelp, red algae, branching coralline 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