Northwest Dive Club

Those might fit, Jeremy - PM sent. Thanks!

I need a larger - i.e., size large - set of Biofins for my new rock boots.

Anyone have a pair to sell?

Thanks!

-Ann

I interviewed UW Oceanographer (and Hood Canal O2 expert) Jan Newton about the phenonemon - she said the O2 situation has improved today with northerly winds bringing more O2-rich water lower in the water column. More breathing room, as it were! But she said if the winds shift, the situation could r...

I had one of those great photo moments where you only saw one thing in the frame when you took the picture... then load it onto your computer and discover what you missed. Not just one gunnel, but a stack of 'em! No wonder you were so adamant that I take a pic of yet another Langley gunnel, Kriss......

Hey, I'm a reporter! An old-fashioned "fact-checking" reporter. Or at least I attribute so the public knows who to blame... ;) This isn't nearly as bad as the NY Times story I read in the '90s wherein the reporter described Bill Gates' new Medina home as "a 12-minute kayak trip across...

I'm heading to Alki immediately to enjoy 57-degree water and see all of those wolf eels I've been missing on my weekly dives.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/p ... 187/1.html

Thanks for your comforting words, Alex.

Next time I'll be sure to get a full set of mug shots and tentacleprints...

Siiigh. A boring ol' Metridium.

Thanks for the sleuthing!

-Ann

I can withstand freak washing machine action. I will not, however, be pleased if any crabs escape.

Thanks, you guys!

We're thinking of diving the T-Dock for crab tomorrow midday. My book points me to the Admiralty Inlet table, and the current looks serious tomorrow. But I also read that the T-Dock currents are usually mellow.

Any advice?

Anyone know what kind of anemone this is?

It was at Alki Pipeline a couple weeks ago. It's about 4" in diameter.

Thanks much, Greg! I never would have made that ID given the photos in my books...

I ended up with the SI Tech rings and the Atlas 660 gloves with wool liners (just some thin gloves I've had for ages). Several dives later, I'm quite happy with my decision.

Thanks, all, for the recommendations!

Do I have these crabs ID'd right?

Top one is from Cove 2, bottom three are from Pipeline, all in the past few weeks.

Thanks!

-Ann

Cove 2 on Tuesday at noon: 15' vis at 35-55 fsw.

Is this a juvenile Dermasterias imbricata? It looks more fluffy and less leathery than others I've seen...

Thanks, y'all!

Also - for dexterity, can you recommend a particular glove? I need to be able to fiddle with camera controls, but don't want something that'll tear if I look at it wrong.

I'm choosing between SI Tech and Viking for my first dry glove ring systems (now that my Northern Diver wet gloves have been compressed down to 1 mm and are shredded enough to resemble something a Dickensian street urchin might wear). Any votes on which are easiest to don and most reliable? Thanks! ...

I saw four egg yolks at Cove 2 on Monday. Two high in the water column as we descended (my buddy noticed a little cod scooting through the tentacles), two side-by-side at the I-beams. At the same time of day two weeks ago all I saw there were zillions of water jellies, which are still everywhere.

Introducing her to all of his invertebrate buddies, I see? Huh!

Thanks for the IDs! Thought it was the same hermit in pic #3 but I guess not!

At Cove 2 yesterday I was amused to first take a pic of a little hermit crab, then a nearby striped nudi, and then watch the crab jump on the nudi's back and pose. Upon further inspection of the photos, the crab is... holding? Attached to? A shiny red ball. What is it? Here are a couple close-ups......

I think the eggs were about 3/4" to an inch long, if memory (and the refractive index) serves.

Cool, Curt! Thanks for the ID.

If these were boring dives, Kriss, please invite me back on a low exchange day! Cockerell's dorid (Laila cockerelli) 2.jpg I'd make the trek just to see a Cockerell's dorid. (The low-current sites we have in Seattle don't offer too many of those.) Plus I discovered baby sculpins (Red Irish lord? The...

Thanks, you guys!