Northwest Dive Club

Still out of commission due to dental problems - the tooth was finally extracted after three attempts to clean up the root canals - so here are some creatures representing my present mood, found on dives in the past ](*,) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/200/476373464_f9624a5998_o.jpg http://farm1.sta...

Root canal issue is still keeping me out of water. I sure miss diving..
Here are some Keystone Mottled Stars from past encounters. Like me, they got some problems..

Here's a link to my photo show ... http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/Fh8pv7uT Also, on the dive with Tom and Doug, I saw a tiny nudibranch (on the hull of the Honey Bear) that I could not ID. It's a poor quality photo, but the thing was so tiny that the camera didn't know what I was trying to focu...

OK guys. It is safe to return to the waters. According to Greg Jensen, shrimp expert, it is a shrimp larva. His quote: " It is a shrimp larva of the genus Pandalopsis, either P. dispar or one of my babies, the sparkling shrimp P. lucidirimicola. These are very large (for larvae) and hatch at qu...

Now here is a critter which doesn't run away when you ready to snap a picture =D> And they are everywhere!. If you spend enough time underwater, they will grow on you too. Ask the whales.. And pilings. And boat bottoms.... And it is a relative of crabs and shrimps, and like them, it has to shed its ...

Thank you John for the lead, I e-mailed her the picture. Hopefully we get some answer to this and I will be able add the name to it, so others can learn too. And maybe get a better picture of it. My point and shoot camera shutter delay is not well suited for fast swimming, shy creatures, however ali...

Looking for some suggestions on this 3/4 inch long critter I encountered at Keystone. Shallow water, near surface, swimming backwards, some kind of shrimp? Not in my books... Thanks.

I take Hood Canal for root canal any day. Thank god for medications. I feel like in 200 fsw on air.

Another view of the critter. As for the diver - diving one day before root canal procedure. Please note that I did not mean Hood Canal

Found in twelve feet of water at Keystone Jetty.

Hi Tim, I think I would agree with John, I too see Pisaster brevispinus variations in color matching yours here at Holmes Harbor, Whidbey Island

So well written report about a sad occurrence. I always worry when I hear about plans to extend Langley marina or Keystone ferry landing. Are we slowly, but surely eliminating fish and critter habitats ? And places to dive?

Dubious Dorid is not that common, great find! I had only one encounter at Langley last year, what was interesting, I collected two specimen for Dave, when I took them home, they turned brown, more like the ones in your photo..

For those folks who experienced only tires, sunflower stars and silt at Langley, I want to tell, that it is not all bad, one just has to look little bit harder. Yesterday, Monday the 19th, Painted Greenling showing off its future family :) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/428699220_5ab70ecf6a_o.jp...

I am so glad you guys made it and had a good dive here on Whidbey, sorry I did not make it today, the weather was just right for catching up with paperwork which I neglected whole week ( I was diving :supz: ) and I figured there will be enough divers crowding the Jetty without me adding to the multi...

Doug, Thursday 10:30 AM dive at Keystone, some silt, but still 15 to 20 foot visibility.

Doug, your plan is a good one, of course one really doesn't know, I have dove Keystone when there was current when none was predicted.. Even if current is running strong, if you stay away from the end of jetty, you should OK. Keep close to the rocks where all the life is, cannot get lost :) As far a...

Doug, you got it right, the southerly wind does make mess at Keystone, by Saturday - well, lets hope it will be clear and calm. I hope you can make it to Whidbey

Keystone Jetty - Whidbey Island. Yesterday, Tuesday the 13th, 20 plus feet, visibility today little bit down, about 15 and more silt, but still OK.

Superb! Right time at right place and right guy with camera!

Great photos! Looking at the fish photo, it looks to me like Great Sculpin, we might ask Janna. The eggs on the first photo look exactly like the ones I took at Langley, and that was Buffalo Sculpin. So they could be sculpin eggs..Just my 2 cents worth...

Looks like Painted Anemone (Urticina crassicornis). How was the visibility there? I checked your Flickr pics, you got some neat Sand Rose Anemone pictures, they are titled by mistake sea urchins

John, Cabezons have that little siphon nostril near eyes.. is it a cabbie?

Tom, great photos and now video !
I am curious, can you tell me if the spawning happened at slack water, low or high tide - I am trying to find out if it is predictable, maybe somebody already knows and let me know? Thanks again for posting...

Great shots. Maybe that will explain lousy visibility at Langley lately