Date: March 27, 2000
Dive Number: 601
Location: Steep Island
Dive Time: 46 min min.
Max Depth: 101 ft
Total Time to Date: 398 hrs. 48 min.
Dive Buddy(s): Terina
Visibility: 35-40 ft
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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 28mm Std.
Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA
Photo Comments:
Tried photos of tubeworms at f3.5. Also tried angling strobes more to the outside at frame #21 with both set to widest beam angle setting. At frame #27 reduced the beam angle of the Ai to 80 degrees to match the Ai/n. TTL did seem to be quenching the strobes 70% of the time.
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Dive Comments:
Normal Steep Island dive running north to south.
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***Fish***
kelp greenling, ling cod, whitespotted greenling, tiger rockfish, quillback rockfish, copper rockfish, longfin sculpin, scalyhead sculpin.
***Cnidarians***
brooding anemone, christmas tealia, crimson anemone, giant plumose anemone, plumose anemone, strawberry anemone, zoanthid, octocoral, orange cup coral, solitary pink-mouth hydroid, sea firs hydroids, white hydroid.
***Nudibranchs***
red-gilled aeolid, monterey sea lemon, white dorid, ringed dorid, yellow-rimmed dorid.
***Echinoderms***
california sea cucumber, creeping pedal cucumber, red sea cucumber, white sea cucumber, blood star, leather star, mottled star, purple star, rainbow star, daisy brittle star, sunflower star, green urchin, red urchin.
***Arthropods***
giant barnacle, orange hermit crab, hairy lithode crab, decorator crab, oregon crab, sharp-nose crab.
***Univalves***
blue top snail, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, wrinkled amphissia, china hat limpet, abalone, hooded puncturella, rough keyhole limpet.
***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***
gumboot chiton, lined chiton, mossy chiton, red chiton, swimming scallop, rock scallop, jingle shell.
***Sponges***
aggregate vase sponge, sulphur sponge, tennis ball sponge, trumpet sponge, cloud sponge, yellow finger sponge.
***Lophophorates***
common brachiopod, northern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.
***Tunicates***
pastel compound tunicate, white-crust compound tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, sea peanut, strawberry tunicate, tall transparent tunicate, transparent tunicate, warty tunicate.
***Worms***
calcareous tube worm, slime tube worms, bushy topped 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