Date: March 26, 2000
Dive Number: 599
Location: April Point Wall
Dive Time: 43 min.
Max Depth: 100 ft
Total Time to Date: 397 hrs. 08 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 40-50 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Same setup as on dive 598, not quite a full roll.
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Dive Comments:
A ofshore wall just north of Quadra Express and a very similar dive. We ended up going south for the whole dive ending in a rubble field in the shallows. A nice dive.
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***Fish***
kelp greenling, ling cod (1 on eggs), whitespotted greenling, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, tiger rockfish, red irish lord, scalyhead sculpin, longfin sculpin.
***Cnidarians***
christmas tealia, giant plumose anemone, plumose anemone, strawberry anemone, orange cup coral, soft coral, sea firs hydroids, solitary pink-mouth hydroid, fish-bone hydroid, orange hydroid, hedgehog hydroid, sea pen, ostrich-plume hydroid white hydroid.
***Nudibranchs***
cooper's dorid, monterey sea lemon, noble sea lemon, yellow-rimmed dorid, white dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, red sea cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, pink star, purple star, rainbow star, daisy brittle star, sunflower star, green urchin, red urchin.
***Arthropods***
giant barnacle, puget sound king crab (saw 9 together in a clump, 12 total on the dive all adult), decorator crab, oregon crab, sharp-nose 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, swimming scallop, rock scallop, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
aggregate vase sponge, boring sponge, sulphur sponge, tennis ball sponge, dark red encrusting sponge, trumpet sponge, yellow finger sponge, cloud sponge.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod, lacy bryozoan, northern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
pastel compound tunicate, white-crust compound tunicate, bristly tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, sea peanut, strawberry tunicate, warty tunicate, transparent tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tube worm, slime tube worms, solitary slime tube worm.
***Algae***
woody kelp, red algae, encrusting 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