Northwest Dive Club

Did you guys get to dive anywhere but the Breakwater while you were there? Funny you should ask... Dive 1: Date: 22 January 2008 Location: Old Cannery Pipeline, Monterey Bay, California Divers: Dave, Kathy & Malinda Washburn Conditions: sunny, air temp 65 Water temp: 57 surface, 51 depth Time i...

This fellow wasn't a younger one; he was probably a good 3 1/2 to 4 inches long. Generally when I see the striped eye and the "hairs" along the sides, I think "scalyhead." But a couple of things suggested differently with this guy. The Coralline has the row of scales like the sca...

Warning, more Monterey stuff ahead: We found several of these on our 7 dives at Monterey. They're unbelievably lovely, especially when the cerata get to gently waving with the surge. At times they wave so much that they obscure the rhinophores and branchial plume, but that's okay, because the whole ...

Looks like a pair of Tritonia festiva , though they usually have some white markings on their back. Could be the way the light is hitting them. The color of the rhinophores and the size of the processes on the frontal veil argue against Tritonia diomedea , but I have yet to see one of those so I'm j...

We found this female kelp crab - I'm pretty sure it's a female because of the smaller claws - at the Monterey breakwater our first night there. Check out the underside of her abdomen. We're thinking she's probably full of eggs, getting ready to pop. What do you guys think? http://i205.photobucket.co...

I got to dive Monterey in mid october and the viz was an inch; best diving...my bottom You must've either caught it on a bad day or gone to a really bad place, because we had good viz the whole trip. Here's the report on our second and third dives: Dive 1: Date: 21 January 2008 Location: Breakwater...

Somebody said they wanted to hear my reports about this trip. We did 7 dives in 3 1/2 days (we're dived out right now!), and since I share regular reports of our dives with the local dive club back in Idaho, I'm happy to share them here, as well. I'll just post the first one tonight because I'm stil...

Malinda and I found this guy at Monterey, following the big pipe that leads out from the beach near the breakwater to the "Metridium field," a popular destination that's supposed to be just what its name implies. We never got to it, there was so much to explore along the way we used our ai...

I hate not being "in" on the joke!!!! For some reason, I can't view the pictures from my home computer (I see all the pictures when I view at work [is my boss monitoring this post? [-X ]). Anyway, I might have to sneak into the office this weekend to see what it's all about!!! Should we t...

Yeah, the site's back up, but after that experience I'm still deciding whether I want to go back or not. For one thing, I'm still reeling a little from seeing him call anybody who didn't give money "leeches." And so far I like this place a lot better.

We found a painted greenling with a similar problem at the breakwater at Monterey Bay a few days ago. As you can see, the one eye is completely gone, and the other is goggled out like your lingcod. I assumed he had an unpleasant encounter with a fish hook, since people fish off that breakwater all t...

I thought I was going to choke from laughing so hard! After an exhausting 2 day drive back up from Monterey, you don't know how I needed that!!!!!

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Yes, Greg's book seems to indicate that the biggest difference between them is the sheep crab's rostrum has a distinctive downturn. Trouble with the one we were playing with yesterday is, nobody noticed his rostrum - we were all focused on the gigantic claws and keeping them from taking hold of us -...

Cool! We were playing with another one today, and those claws are humongous! They look like vise grips. The one today wasn't decorated, but I see in Greg's description that when they mature they stop playing dress-up. It all fits. Thanks, all!

Hmm, nothing... I'm gonna guess either nobody knows, and/or Greg's not on this list or hasn't been on in a day or so... "Oh, ye of little faith!" ;) Greg's a member here....probably just hasn't been here for a few days. We're all waiting to see what he says on this one! - John 1. I'm new....

Hmm, nothing... I'm gonna guess either nobody knows, and/or Greg's not on this list or hasn't been on in a day or so...

Looks like he's doing a cartoon "wild take"!!! Did his vision seem to be okay?

Yeah, I know, it ain't exactly northwest at the moment, but northwest folks are just so much more helpful than California folks :smt038 Anyway, the biggest problem in identifying this guy is all the little anemones here and there in key places. He was in about 30 fsw, in the rocks along the Monterey...

Hey, as I used to tell my computer students, nobody's born knowing this stuff. We all start at the same place, and we're all still learning.

I'm glad I discovered this forum. I'm mourning the demise of the Northwest Diver board, but I see a lot of the same names here, so that's very cool. I'm Dave, and I get around a bit. At this very moment I'm in Monterey for a few days. My wife, youngest daughter and I all dive together, which is a lo...