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- Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:08 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Back From Grand Cayman
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1473
Re: Back From Grand Cayman
Okay help me with this, one of my photos is of a tiny see fan looking critter. On the surface it looks like tiny cotton balls on the branches. This was about the size of a dime. I took it with the microscope mode on my camera, if you expand or zoom in this is a crazy looking animal! What is it, tel...
- Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:03 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: New flatfish e-book
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1545
New flatfish e-book
New FREE Pacific Northwest e-book to help you identify the various flatfish that are found in our area. Download the pdf at http://www.molamarine.com by clicking on the photo of the C-O sole (and the red Irish lord if you don't have the sculpin book already).
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
- Sat Jul 28, 2018 4:41 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Viz Reports Thread
- Replies: 3190
- Views: 374647
Re: Viz Reports Thread
Sund Friday 27th- awful from 10-50 feet
- Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:14 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Do flounders like divers?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1063
Re: Do flounders like divers?
Speckled sanddabs seem especially into following divers and inspecting the disturbances in the sediment for goodies
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:55 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Small tide change better visibility ???
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1382
Re: Small tide change better visibility ???
Generally speaking, big tides stir things up more. When you have to dive a day with a large exchange, aim for the latter part of the flood as ebbing and low tides are typically poorer. When the vis in central sound goes to crap, head over to Hood Canal. Due to its much milder currents the plankton l...
- Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:09 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Orange Sea Pens, Flabellina verrucosa, and Other Predators
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2466
Re: Orange Sea Pens, Flabellina verrucosa, and Other Predators
There are a few scattered ones under the bridge, but the big bed is pretty much straight out from the boat launch
- Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:06 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Viz Reports Thread
- Replies: 3190
- Views: 374647
Re: Viz Reports Thread
Southern Hood Canal at the Great Bend- layer of awful vis (3-4 ft) from 20-50 ft; fine below that
- Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:25 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Orange Sea Pens, Flabellina verrucosa, and Other Predators
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2466
Re: Orange Sea Pens, Flabellina verrucosa, and Other Predators
Acres of adult pens near the Fox Island bridge
- Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:59 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Deception Pass gate still locked
- Replies: 4
- Views: 884
Re: Deception Pass gate still locked
Thanks for the heads-up. I'd planned to dive it Monday, because their web site said it opened at the beginning of March.
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:44 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Two different species of GPO
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1292
Re: Two different species of GPO
So far only known from southeastern Alaska to the Bering Sea- though I don't know if anyone has looked for them here yet. Everyone should look through their octo pics and see if they have any.
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:21 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: White Juvenile sculpin?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1083
Re: White Juvenile sculpin?
yep, baby buffalo.
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:37 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: 2017, Wrapping Up - # of Dives? Highlights? Lowlights?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6220
Re: 2017, Wrapping Up - # of Dives? Highlights? Lowlights?
68 dives
Highlights: Channel Is liveaboard, Sea of Cortez, Deception, Salt creek, Victoria
Lowlights: out for 2 months because nurse's aid f..cked up my eardrum DURING MY DIVE PHYSICAL; 3 hours in a recompression chamber with my wife when she got bent on the Sea of Cortez trip
Highlights: Channel Is liveaboard, Sea of Cortez, Deception, Salt creek, Victoria
Lowlights: out for 2 months because nurse's aid f..cked up my eardrum DURING MY DIVE PHYSICAL; 3 hours in a recompression chamber with my wife when she got bent on the Sea of Cortez trip
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:11 pm
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade Dive Gear
- Topic: FS: Tanks galore! Singles, Doubles, etc.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2388
Re: FS: Tanks galore! Singles, Doubles, etc.
Anyone out there? Bueller? Bueller?
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:18 pm
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade Dive Gear
- Topic: FS: Tanks galore! Singles, Doubles, etc.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2388
Re: FS: Tanks galore! Singles, Doubles, etc.
Hi
I'll take four of the AL80's if you still have them
Greg
I guess it would be three- just looking for singles
I'll take four of the AL80's if you still have them
Greg
I guess it would be three- just looking for singles
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:36 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4607
- Views: 564003
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Wolf eels do have bones- as do the true eels
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:01 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4607
- Views: 564003
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
The reduced last pair of legs in a king crab is a holdover from their hermit crab ancestry, and they are specialized for cleaning the gills and (in the case of the males) for transferring sperm to females when mating. It is likely that females use them to help keep their eggs clean.
- Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:44 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2924
Re: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
derekcs wrote:
Thanks for the info! So if I have it right, it's the first live sighting recorded in Puget Sound ever and the first in all of the Salish Sea in 80+ years?
Yep! just a tad jealous
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 4:17 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2924
Re: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
Should I forward these photos to the aquarium?[/quote] Sure. I've already told the NOAA and UW fish collection people about it. Apparently there was one previous record from the Salish Sea, found west of Sooke BC in 1935, but it didn't get included in the 2015 list that I was looking at. Any way you...
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 12:35 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2924
Re: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
Medusafish (Icichthys lockingtoni) is a better fit, in terms of the characters that I mentioned. As the common name implies, they live in jellyfish.
This would be a new record, not only for Puget Sound but also the Salish Sea
This would be a new record, not only for Puget Sound but also the Salish Sea
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 12:29 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2924
Re: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
Checking various sources, it doesn't appear to be a prowfish- specifically, they lack a lateral line (which is obvious in the photos) and the scales are wrong. Also the dorsal fin appears to start too far back.
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 11:24 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2924
Re: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
That looks like a baby prowfish- and the behavior certainly matches (hiding in a jelly). Any other pics showing more of the body? That would be a pretty special sighting if it is a prowfish.
- Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:05 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: What kind of cephalopod?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1664
Re: What kind of cephalopod?
they generally swim in spurts, so kind of similar- except they do it using appendages rather than jet propulsion
- Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:14 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: White Lined Dironas MIA?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3231
Re: White Lined Dironas MIA?
Last October on a dive at Rosario I recorded Dirona as "abundant" on my REEF form (100+ seen)
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 11:17 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: What kind of cephalopod?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1664
Re: What kind of cephalopod?
I'm with Jan on this- parasitic copepod.
- Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:16 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Poor Eels
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1316
Re: Poor Eels
Wolf eels are not legal to take anywhere in Washington.