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
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- Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:37 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: 2017, Wrapping Up - # of Dives? Highlights? Lowlights?
- Replies: 43
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- Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:11 pm
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade Dive Gear
- Topic: FS: Tanks galore! Singles, Doubles, etc.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4448
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: 4448
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: 5415
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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: 5415
- Views: 947255
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: 5418
Re: Trapped or sheltering in a lion's mane?
Yep! just a tad jealousderekcs 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?
- 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: 5418
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: 5418
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: 5418
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: 5418
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: 3012
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: 6629
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: 3012
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: 2320
Re: Poor Eels
Wolf eels are not legal to take anywhere in Washington.
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:36 am
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: Nikon housing
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1246
Nikon housing
In case anyone out there has one of these cameras- seems like a good deal:
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https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ ... fgod5s4MOQ
- Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:11 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Question on sea life
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2301
Re: Question on sea life
Since he mentioned "whiskers" on the inside of the opening, I'm guessing he saw horse clam siphons
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 7:47 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Keystone. Great as always.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2197
Re: Keystone. Great as always.
The nudie is one of the small Dendronotus species- maybe Dendronotus subramosus
- Tue May 30, 2017 11:21 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Dead plainfin midshipmen at Sund Rock
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1894
Re: Dead plainfin midshipmen at Sund Rock
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.
- Thu May 11, 2017 11:50 am
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: TG 4 and RAW
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1764
TG 4 and RAW
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 ...
- Sat May 06, 2017 9:34 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Point Hudson alert
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1230
Point Hudson alert
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...
- Sat Mar 18, 2017 8:47 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: ThThTh 3/16
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1925
Re: ThThTh 3/16
Nice find. It's a red rock crab, not a Dungeness.
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 6:17 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Alki Pipeline 2/7
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3320
Re: Alki Pipeline 2/7
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...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 2:59 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Red Rock Crab Behavior Question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3723
Re: Red Rock Crab Behavior Question
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 ...
- Sat Jan 28, 2017 2:51 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Redondo ThThTh 1/26/2017 Away Mission
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1685
Re: Redondo ThThTh 1/26/2017 Away Mission
Deep blade shrimp, Spirontocaris prionota. First shrimp is a Franciscan shrimp, Heptacarpus franciscanus
- Sat Nov 19, 2016 12:44 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Sund Rock - 11/12/16
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9178
Re: Sund Rock - 11/12/16
Only photos I've seen are a couple in Lamb's "coastal fishes of the Pacific Northwest" book. Maximum length 27 inches