Northwest Dive Club

Wolf eels are not legal to take anywhere in Washington.

In case anyone out there has one of these cameras- seems like a good deal:

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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...

Flatfish is a rock sole

The baby "great sculpin" is actually a buffalo- note the steeper profile of the face and smaller mouth. The big giveaway though is the raised row of scales on the upper part of the back.
That white adult is one strange looking beast, though.

Horseclam (Tresus)

yep, an amphipod- Podocerus cristatus. Comes in a wide variety of cool colors