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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.

they generally swim in spurts, so kind of similar- except they do it using appendages rather than jet propulsion

Last October on a dive at Rosario I recorded Dirona as "abundant" on my REEF form (100+ seen)

I'm with Jan on this- parasitic copepod.

Wolf eels are not legal to take anywhere in Washington.

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Since he mentioned "whiskers" on the inside of the opening, I'm guessing he saw horse clam siphons

The nudie is one of the small Dendronotus species- maybe Dendronotus subramosus

It's typical for a bunch of them to die off this time of year, following reproduction. Main thing that draws so many bald eagles to Seabeck, to scavenge them.

I have a TG-4 that I use as a backup. Great little camera that does some cool stuff, plus like having that extra level of protection of a waterproof camera in a housing. One of the big selling points is that it is one of the few cameras in its category that shoots RAW. I use RAW in my other Olympus ...

In case any of you have missed it, I'm re-posting this from the REEF critterwatcher facebook page. If you can't make the meeting, you can contact the port staff here: http://portofpt.com/about-us/staff/ I suggest emphasizing the economic importance in addition to the biological- e.g., we go up there...

Nice find. It's a red rock crab, not a Dungeness.

Yep, it is a mysid, also called opossum shrimp because the females have a brood pouch on their underside. This kind is solitary; more often you see the schooling ones that mess up the viz in places like Sekiu and Neah Bay (and that many call 'krill', but that is a different beast- though you often s...

Her eggs are recently extruded (orange) so nowhere near ready to hatch, and wouldn't be doing it in this position anyway. I can see she has some large barnacles on her- my guess is that she somehow got flipped over and is so top-heavy from barnacles she couldn't right herself, and is too tired from ...

Deep blade shrimp, Spirontocaris prionota. First shrimp is a Franciscan shrimp, Heptacarpus franciscanus

Only photos I've seen are a couple in Lamb's "coastal fishes of the Pacific Northwest" book. Maximum length 27 inches

Greg, what say you on this one that we found at Sund in January 2015?[/quote]

that is a skate case- much more rectangular shape, and I'm guessing considerably larger

Actually I think that's a brown cat shark egg case- very cool find

These are actually diamondback tritonia, Tritonia festiva. Still nice pics

Actually the Henricia with the white "armpits" like the one shown here are an undescribed species- one of many in our area

Correct- the shallow sloughs and low-vis estuaries where they live are unlikely dive sites

Gdog wrote:Wonder how they taste......

They taste like red rock crab- but there's very little meat in one, and you spend more calories getting it out than you get from eating it.

So maybe a good diet food

For those of you that venture south of the border (or dream of it) there's a great new book out on the invertebrates of northern Mexico

from the map it looks like there might be shore access- anyone know if one could get in there during the week?

Question for some of the (other) old-timers out there: I was looking at an old Cousteau book on octopus and squid the other day, and it said that Keystone jetty used to have some sort of underwater port/viewer that people could look out while divers brought things like octopus up to it for them to s...