Date: September 3, 2000		Dive Number: 619

Location: Saltery Bay (Mermaid Cove)

Dive Time: 62 min.		Max Depth: 137 ft

Total Time to Date:		415 hrs. 36 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: 

Shot first part of roll at f11 then moved to 1/2 f8/f11.

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Dive Comments:

Snorkled behind the island to the right and then went down, we had to swim a long way out to get to the rock wall. It probably would have been better to go in front of the island and then down. I think the wall in that area curves out then back in.

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***Fish***

ratfish, blackeye goby, northern ronquil, speckled sanddab, kelp greenling, ling cod, painted greenling, whitespotted greenling, quillback rockfish, scalyhead sculpin, tidepool sculpin, kelp perch, pile perch, shiner perch, striped perch, plainfin midshipman, tubesnout.

***Cnidarians***

beaded tealia, crimson anemone, giant plumose anemone, swimming anemone, tube-dwelling anemone, round brown cup coral, sea firs hydroids, cross jellyfish, sea gooseberry, red jellyfish.

***Nudibranchs***

red-gilled aeolid, white dorid, spotted aglaga.

***Arthropods***

kelp crabs, bering hermit crabs, coonstripe shrimp.

***Univalves***

frilled dogwinkle, leafy hornmouth, oregon triton, wrinkled amphissia.

***Bivalves & Polyplachapora***

lined chiton, swimming scallop, jingle shell.

***Sponges***

boot sponge, cloud sponge, orange finger sponge.

***Lophophorates***

snakeshead brachiopod, kelp-encrusting bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.

***Tunicates***

bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, orange social tunicate, sea peach, sea peanut, warty tunicate.

***Worms***

solitary slime worms, calareous tubeworms, giant white calcareous tubeworms.

***Algae***

eel grass, laminaria.

***Cephalopods***

pacific octopus.



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