Date: October 4, 2000		Dive Number: 635

Location: Cotton Channel (Seymour Inlet)

Dive Time: 52 min.		Max Depth: 44 ft

Total Time to Date:		427 hrs. 2 min.

Dive Buddy(s): Terina

Visibility: 25 ft

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Camera: Nikonos V/2 Strobes	Lens: 35mm/1:1 Macro

Film: Ektachrome VS 100 ASA

Photo Comments: 

Tried to frame lower this dive.

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Dive Comments:

Narrow channel with rocky bottom at 40 feet, dove east to west.

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***Fish***

decorated warbonnet, blackeye goby, northern ronquil, kelp greenling, ling cod, painted greenling, black rockfish, copper rockfish, puget sound rockfish, quillback rockfish, yellowtail rockfish, scalyhead sculpin, longfin sculpin.

***Cnidarians***

brooding anemone, kelp brooding anemone, christmas tealia, white-spotted tealia, stolon coral, soft coral, encrusting hydrocoral, pink branching hydrocoral, hedgehog hydroid, orange hydroid, pink mouthed hydroids, sea firs hydroids, silver-tip hydroid, snail-fur hydroid, white hydroid.

***Nudibranchs***

opalescent nudibranch, red-gilled aeolid, coloured dendronotid, monterey sea lemon, columbia doto, orange-peel nudibranch.

***Echinoderms***

basket stars, blood stars, painted stars, sunflower stars, red urchins, leather stars.

***Arthropods***

Puget sound king crabs (adult and juv.), unbrella crab, oregon crab, graceful kelp crab, red hermit crab, giant barnacles.

***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.

***Sponges***

latex sponge, giant finger sponge, red encrusting sponge, boring sponge.

***Lophophorates***

kelp-encrusting bryozoan, lacy bryozoan, northern staghorn bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan.

***Tunicates***

lobed compound tunicate, pastel compound tunicate, stalked compound tunicate, white-crust compound tunicate, bristly tunicate, broad-base tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, orange social tunicate, dwarf stalked light-bulb tunicate, stalked tunicate, strawberry tunicate, warty tunicate.

***Worms***

calcareous tubeworms.

***Algae***

Bull kelp, woody kelp, 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