Date: September 2, 2000 Dive Number: 617 Location: Saltery bay (Mermaid Cove) Dive Time: 52 min. Max Depth: 136 ft Total Time to Date: 413 hrs. 45 min. Dive Buddy(s): Terina Visibility: 50+ ft -------------------- Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes Lens: 28mm Std. Film: Scala B&W 200 ASA Photo Comments: Trying B&W slide film, unfortunatly slave strobe did not fire for the whole dive. but tried with single strobe adjusting f-stop to about 8-5.6. -------------------- Dive Comments: Whent down float at mermaid then over wall behind mermaid and allont to the right. We came back upover wall and went back to left and back into bay. -------------------- ***Fish*** decorated warbonnet, blackeye goby, northern ronquil, speckled sanddab, kelp greenling, ling cod, painted greenling, copper rockfish, quillback rockfish, yelloweye rockfish (juv), buffalo sculpin, roughback sculpin, shiner perch, pile perch, striped perch, plainfin midshipman, tubesnout. ***Cnidarians*** crimson anemone, giant plumose anemone, swimming anemone, tube-dwelling anemone, round brown cup coral, orange cup coral, pink mouthed hydroids, sea firs hydroids, sea pen, sea gooseberry. ***Nudibranchs*** red-gilled aeolid, giant swimming dendronotid, golden dirona, dwarf white dorid, monterey sea lemon (very big), ringed dorid, white dorid. ***Echinoderms*** blood stars, sunflower stars, rose stars, striped sun stars, cookie stars, slime starts, velcro stars, painted stars, mottled stars, purple stars, green sea urchinf (lots), California cucumbers. ***Arthropods*** decorator crabs, orange hairy lithode crabs, galithide crabs, kelp crab, coonstripe shrimp. ***Univalves*** dwarf hairy triton, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, wrinkled amphissia. ***Bivalves & Polyplachapora*** lined chiton, red chiton, swimming scallop, jingle shell. ***Sponges*** boot sponge, cloud sponge, orange finger sponge (lots). ***Lophophorates*** snakeshead brachiopod, kelp-encrusting bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan. ***Tunicates*** bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, sea peanut, transparent tunicate, warty tunicate. ***Worms*** calcareous tubeworms, giant white calcareous tubeworms. ***Cephalopods*** 2 pacific octopus both quite large. 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