Date: March 25, 2000
Dive Number: 596
Location: Whiskey Point
Dive Time: 43 min.
Max Depth: 71 ft
Total Time to Date: 394 hrs. 55 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 40 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 28mm Std.
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Started off with aperature f5.6/8 and TTL was quenching much of the time. Tried some upward kelp shots at f5.6 and f4 and at the end tried bull kelp bulbs with the strobes angled outward.
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Dive Comments:
Went down to 60-70' immediately and current was less there. Later came back up to 40-50' and looked around for wolfeels (found none). Drifted to the start of the gravel and came up.
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***Fish***
kelp greenling, ling cod, painted greenling, quillback rockfish, copper rockfish, tiger rockfish, scalyhead sculpin, striped perch, kelp perch.
***Cnidarians***
christmas tealia, giant plumose anemone, plumose anemone, strawberry anemone, orange cup coral, orange hydroid, ostrich-plume hydroid, solitary pink-mouth hydroid, white hydroid.
***Nudibranchs***
three-lined aeolid, monterey sea lemon, white dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, red sea cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, purple star, rainbow star, daisy brittle star, sunflower star, green urchin, red urchin.
***Arthropods***
giant barnacle, puget sound king crab (juv), oregon crab.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, oregon triton, leafy hornmouth, wrinkled amphissia, china hat limpet, hooded puncturella, kelp-dwelling limpet, rough keyhole limpet.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
gumboot chiton, lined chiton, mossy chiton, scaly-girdled chitons, swimming scallop, rock scallop, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
boring sponge, orange-red encrusting sponge, sulphur sponge, tennis ball sponge, trumpet sponge, cloud sponge.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod, northern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
bristly tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, strawberry tunicate, transparent tunicate, warty tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tube worm.

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