Date: March 26, 2000
Dive Number: 598
Location: Quadra Express
Dive Time: 43 min.
Max Depth: 82 ft
Total Time to Date: 396 hrs. 24 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 50 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Tried using the right hand strobe as more of a side light than normal.
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Dive Comments:
Dive is a shelf just off and slightly north of Row & Be Damned. As you swim west the bottom drops to a small wall, lots of great life and some things I have not seen on other area dive sites.
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***Fish***
decorated warbonnet, kelp greenling, ling cod, whitespotted greenling, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, cabezon, scalyhead sculpin.
***Cnidarians***
brooding anemone, christmas tealia, giant plumose anemone, plumose anemone, strawberry anemone, octocoral, orange cup coral, soft coral, encrusting hydrocoral, hedgehog hydroid, orange hydroid, solitary pink-mouth hydroid, fish-bone hydroid, sea firs hydroids, white hydroid.
***Nudibranchs***
red-gilled aeolid, cooper's dorid, monterey sea lemon, orange-peel nudibranch.
***Echinoderms***
white sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, california sea cucumber, red sea cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, purple star, rainbow star, sunflower star, red urchin.
***Arthropods***
giant barnacle, granular-claw crab, decorator crab.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, wrinkled amphissia, china hat limpet, hooded puncturella, rough keyhole limpet.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
gumboot chiton, lined chiton, mossy chiton, rock scallop, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
boring sponge, orange-red encrusting sponge, sulphur sponge, tennis ball sponge, dark red encrusting sponge, yellow finger sponge.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod, northern staghorn bryozoan, white-tuft bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
pastel compound tunicate, white-crust compound tunicate, bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, orange social tunicate, sea peanut, strawberry tunicate, transparent tunicate, warty tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tube worm, slime tube worms.
***Algae***
woody kelp, red algae, iredescent 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