Date: March 25, 2000
Dive Number: 597
Location: Copper Cliffs
Dive Time: 42 min.
Max Depth: 116 ft
Total Time to Date: 395 hrs. 41 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 50 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 28mm Std.
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Nothing different from dive 596, shot most of the roll at f5.6/8 did try f4 for parchment tubeworms.
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Dive Comments:
Went down at the south end of true cliffs and drifted south. Very vertical wall with lots of good life.
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***Fish***
wolf-eel, ling cod, whitespotted greenling, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, scalyhead sculpin, speckled sanddab, ling cod.
***Cnidarians***
brooding anemone, christmas tealia, crimson anemone, plumose anemone, strawberry anemone, giant plumose anemone, octocoral, orange cup coral, pink mouthed hydroids, bushy pink mouthed hydroids, orange hydroid, white hydroid.
***Nudibranchs***
red-gilled aeolid, monterey sea lemon, white dorid.
***Echinoderms***
creeping pedal cucumber, red sea cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, purple star, daisy brittle star, sunflower star, green urchin, red urchin, morning sun star.
***Arthropods***
giant barnacle, puget sound king crab (adult 7 juv.), decorator crab.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, wrinkled amphissia, rough keyhole limpet, hooded puncturella, china hat limpet.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
gumboot chiton, lined chiton, mossy chiton, swimming scallop, rock scallop, jingle shell, veiled chiton.
***Sponges***
boring sponge, tennis ball sponge, yellow finger sponge, cloud sponge, orange-red encrusting sponge, pink encrusting sponge.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod, lacy bryozoan, northern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
pastel compound tunicate, white-crust compound tunicate, bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, glassy tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, light-bulb tunicate, transparent tunicate, warty tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tube worm, slime tube worms, two pronged tube worm.
***Algae***
bull kelp, woody kelp laminaria, 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