WWW 3/20/13

[Mortuus]

Same old times, same old place!

That's 4:30, 6:00, and Cove 2 for those of you who don't know.

All times are approximate, so dont stress if you can't splash at exactly those times! With pre-dive socializing, most of the splash times are actually highly variable. Just show up with enough time to assemble your gear!

[aadolfi]

I'll be there for the 2nd dive

[chokolad]

My suit is back so I'll be there at second (and third dive )

[LCF]

I'm planning on being there for both dives, and post-dive food/drink, if anybody is going . . .

[Kees]

I'm in for dive 2 and "dive" 3. Planning on practicing unconscious diver recoveries, so if you would like to practice, learn, and/or watch, I could use the company!

[Jeremy]

I'm in for dive 2 and "dive" 3. Planning on practicing unconscious diver recoveries, so if you would like to practice, learn, and/or watch, I could use the company!

Will these drills occur during dive 2 or dive 3?

[Kees]

I'm in for dive 2 and "dive" 3. Planning on practicing unconscious diver recoveries, so if you would like to practice, learn, and/or watch, I could use the company!

Will these drills occur during dive 2 or dive 3?

Depends on how well dive 3 goes!

[Mortuus]

I'm in for dive 2 and "dive" 3. Planning on practicing unconscious diver recoveries, so if you would like to practice, learn, and/or watch, I could use the company!

Will these drills occur during dive 2 or dive 3?

I don't see any reason they can't happen on both

[Jimothy]

I'd love to go, but its difficult for me to make the splash times.

[LCF]

Wow, the weather really cooperated for us tonight -- we got the window between the morning's pouring rain and the night's snow (there was a half inch on the ground at my house when I got home).

Viz below ten feet was really quite nice, and tonight was California night at the Cove -- at least, the two unusual nudibranchs we found were Armina californica and Berthella californica. How's that for coincidence? I see the Arminas periodically in the Cove, although I don't know why they are there, because nothing they eat lives there. But I don't think I've ever seen one of the Berthellas there, and we found two.

That, a restless GPO, a mixed school of striped and pile perch, and a huge school of tubesnouts were the highlights of our evening.

Thank you to my beloved buddy Kirk Hamblen, who I don't get to see nearly often enough, and Dave Stucki, who I don't get to dive with often enough, for a really fun nearly 70 minutes underwater tonight. It's almost 11, and I'm almost thawed . . .


Armina californica


Berthella california


A rare sighting of Kirk Hamblen


Some type of polychaete worm, about four inches long, that I went nutsoid trying to photograph in the water column

[Mortuus]

I'd love to go, but its difficult for me to make the splash times.

Well like I said, the splash times aren't exactly set in stone. It's basically anywhere from 4:30-7

[LeslieH]

Lovely worm pic. That's a species of Phyllodoce.