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- Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:19 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Alki Junkyard - Sea Spiders - 1/9/16
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4289
Re: Alki Junkyard - Sea Spiders - 1/9/16
Yep, it's a type of polychaete worm called a scaleworm, due to the rows of "scales" running down the back.
- Tue Jan 05, 2016 2:34 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Zipper Tests - The Results Are In!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6528
Re: Zipper Tests - The Results Are In!
Thanks for the info on why they say that. I would think the biggest stress to that area would be when the suit is rolled up and the arms folded in- esp. if something is then set or dropped on top of the bag.
- Mon Jan 04, 2016 10:41 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Zipper Tests - The Results Are In!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6528
Re: Zipper Tests - The Results Are In!
My wife and I both have over 500 dives each on our Abyss suits with metal, across the shoulder zippers, with no leaks so far (knock on wood). All my previous suits had much shorter zipper lifespans, but none of those had a zipper flap. We do mostly shore dives so there's a lot of rubbing on the zipp...
- Fri Jan 01, 2016 11:25 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Lost Oceanic Geo 2 at Rockaway Beach
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2344
Re: Lost Oceanic Geo 2 at Rockaway Beach
That was me (stuck with my wife's pink tank) and my buddy. Unfortunately we didn't see your computer. So many locals walk past there- I'd try posting a sign...
- Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:15 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Sculpin ID Help
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2535
Re: Sculpin ID Help
You nailed it- smoothhead!
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 9:25 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Crimson Anemones, Candy Stripe & other 2 Shrimps / Eualids
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4247
Re: Crimson Anemones, Candy Stripe & other 2 Shrimps / Eualids
The parasite is a bopyrid isopod
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 11:23 am
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: AA rechargeable batteries
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2974
Re: AA rechargeable batteries
[quote="fmerkel"]Because there area a certain class of people and attendant layers that are the bane of our existence. I'd not be surprised it the instructions indicate not to eat them. :nutty: Well, not exactly, but it does say to call a doctor if you swallow them. I figured you would jus...
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:00 am
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: AA rechargeable batteries
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2974
AA rechargeable batteries
My rechargeable strobe batteries were taking longer and loooonnngger to power up my strobe after a shot, so I finally bought some of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HZV9WTM?keywords=aa%20rechargeable%20batteries&qid=1445669247&ref_=sr_1_5&s=electronics&sr=1-5 since they se...
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 11:22 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Lobster in Puget sound?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 54822
Re: Lobster in Puget sound?
Judging from the color, the eggs looked like they were pretty well developed. I suspect the lobster was shipped in from the east coast already carrying them. Female lobsters with eggs are not supposed to be harvested (on the east coast that is- out here, any of them are fair game so it's good that y...
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:52 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Parasites
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1846
Re: Parasites
They are branchiurans, a type of parasitic crustacean. They are often referred to as "fish lice" but that name is also given to some very similar-looking parasitic copepods. The easy way to tell them apart is that branchiurans have a pair of eyes and copepods don't.
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:19 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Diving with someone who has been banned...and for good reason!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3163
Re: Diving with someone who has been banned...and for good reason!
What is that rock-like structure starting around 2:15? Haven't been there in ages but I don't remember ever seeing anything like that.
- Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:04 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Crimson Anemones, Candy Stripe & other 2 Shrimps / Eualids
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4247
Re: Crimson Anemones, Candy Stripe & other 2 Shrimps / Eualids
The third species in your photographs is the threespine shrimp, Heptacarpus tridens.
- Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:13 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Hood Canal Low Oxygen event
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3716
Re: Hood Canal Low Oxygen event
Octopus Hole today was pretty depressing. The negatives: A dead rubescens octopus at the entry point as we put on our fins. Scores of dead spot prawns- almost never see dead shrimp, as everyone likes to eat them- but almost no one there feels well enough to do so At least six large dead sailfin scul...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:26 pm
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: Post all Pregnant/YOY Rockfish Photos/videos here!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2747
Re: Post all Pregnant/YOY Rockfish Photos/videos here!
Lots of preggo Puget Sound rockfish at the Pinnacle today
- Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:30 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Discovery Bay boat launch
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1164
Re: Discovery Bay boat launch
Yep, Gardiner. Thanks
- Fri Aug 07, 2015 1:18 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Discovery Bay boat launch
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1164
Discovery Bay boat launch
Has anyone launched there recently? Trying to find info on the web with conflicting results. The Port Townsend site says $10 launch fee (is there a box there to drop it in?) while the WDFW website says that motorized boats aren't allowed (which makes no sense...)
- Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:40 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Did It Actually Choke???
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2752
Re: Did It Actually Choke???
If you watch a fish, you'll see it moving its mouth as it breathes (more obvious on some than others- some look like they're gasping all the time). Water comes in through the mouth, passes through the gill arches and exits the opening behind the gill covers. Most fish can have something big in their...
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 10:30 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: The Giant Manta, predator of the sea
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1356
Re: The Giant Manta, predator of the sea
I agree. Although strictly speaking the fact that it ingests larvae of various types (fish, crab, etc.) makes it a predator, it seems misleading to call it one. If you do, where do you draw the line? When a goat eats a plant with aphids on it, does that make it a predator?
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:52 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Did It Actually Choke???
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2752
Re: Did It Actually Choke???
Yeah, it isn't that uncommon for fish to choke to death when they "bite off more than they can chew", so to speak. Often happens with big-headed prey like sculpins- fish tries to swallow it headfirst, sculpin raises its head spines, and now its locked in and the fish can't spit it out. Thr...
- Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:32 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Critter ID
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1345
Re: Critter ID
It's an amphipod- probably Podocerus cristatus. These come in all kinds of really cool colors.
- Mon May 25, 2015 9:19 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Viz Reports Thread
- Replies: 3235
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Re: Viz Reports Thread
Port Townsend 5/25 6-10 ft; Pt. Whitney 20 ft.
- Wed May 20, 2015 4:14 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Do octos have 9 brains?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1792
Re: Do octos have 9 brains?
Each arm has a large ganglia that controls that arm, so they sorta do- with 8 arms that bend in every direction, that's a lot of processing for the main brain to have to deal with. So a lot of the stuff is subcontracted out to the ganglia to handle. The main brain is probably the only place where an...
- Tue May 12, 2015 11:10 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: unknown fish on eggs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1517
Re: unknown fish on eggs
yep.
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- Mon Apr 20, 2015 4:23 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Crabs making war or love?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2102
Re: Crabs making war or love?
Norris nailed it- two big males fighting over the smaller one in the middle
- Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:23 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Seeking...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2817
Re: Seeking...
Ditto on Sekiu- seem to be much more common in the Strait than down here in the Sound.