Northwest Dive Club

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

Anyone out there? Bueller? Bueller?

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

Wolf eels do have bones- as do the true eels

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.

derekcs 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?

Yep! just a tad jealous

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...

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

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.

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.

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