Date: February 9, 2003
Dive Number: 706
Location: Saltery Bay (Mermaid Cove)
Bottom Time: 51 min
Max Depth: 82 feetHours: 486 Hours; Minutes: 49 Minutes
Visibility: 60 Feet
Buddy: Terina
*****NOTES*****
Went behind Mermaid and over to shoreline wall on left.
******FISH******
blackeye goby, kelp greenling, ling cod, painted greenling, whitespotted greenling, juv. rockfish, quillback rockfish, copper rockfish, longfin sculpin, scalyhead sculpin, kelp perch, shiner perch, 
******CNIDARIANS******
beaded anemone, crimson anemone, giant plumose anemone, plumose anemone, tube-dwelling anemone, swimming anemone, brown cup coral, orange cup coral, ostrich-plume hydroid, sea pen, 
******ARTHROPODS******
acorn barnacle, armed hermit crab, sponge hermit crab, hairy lithode crab, decorator crab, deep-water decorator crab, northern kelp crab, sharp-nose crab, stiletto shrimp, kincaid's shrimp, 
******BRYOZOANS*******
kelp-encrusting bryozoan, lacy bryozoan, rabbit ear bryozoan, 
*****MULLOSC*****
leather chiton, lined chiton, scaly-girdled chitons, chinaman's hat limpet, rough keyhole limpet, rock scallop, swimming scallop, blue top snail, leafy hornmouth (lying eggs), wrinkled amphissia, 
******NUDIBRANCHS******
opalescent nudibranch, red-gilled aeolid, alabaster diron, monterey sea lemon, noble sea lemon, ringed dorid, hooded nudibranch (large group), 
******ECHINODERMS******
california sea cucumber, pink creeping pedal cucumber, blood starfish, leather starfish, mottled starfish, pink starfish, purple starfish, rainbow starfish, slime starfish, velcro starfish, gray brittle star, morning sun starfish, rose starfish, sunflower starfish, purple sea urchin, 
******SPONGES******
bristly vase sponge, boring sponge, orange finger sponge, 
******TUNICATES******
pastel compound tunicate, bristly tunicate, horse-shoe tunicate, sea peach, transparent tunicate, 
******WORMS******
calcareous tubeworm, large red worm??
******ALGAE******
branching coraline algae, 
coraline algae, laminaria,