Northwest Dive Club

http://emeralddiving.com/sixgill_video_512.html

Looks like sixgills like starfish too

Great video !
And Sunflower star will drop everything and run if only touched by Morning Sun star (Solaster dawsoni).

mattwave wrote:http://emeralddiving.com/sixgill_video_512.html

Looks like sixgills like starfish too

Big sixgills - great video! Very impressive sharks...

Those sharks are exhibiting feeding behavior as far as I can tell, and If those videos were shot when I think they were, then I heard that there were folks that were baiting for sixgills at Three Tree around that time.

They are "searching"... not just wandering by. Those sharks were "looking" for what they "smelled" that brought them in, and I'm betting the Sunflower Star was collateral damage. I doubt that sixgills would have Sunflower Stars as a prey item, but then again, what do I know?

Eyeshine. Probably more appropriate posting for Halloween

Ratfish eyeshine seen here results from from a reflective layer on the back of the eye, the tapetum lucidum, which provides more light to photoreceptors and improves night vision.
-Curt

Stubbies are one of my favorite things to find on a dive -- they're so pretty, and so interesting to watch!

Looks like the stubby is getting ready to nab that roughback sculpin. Is that the case?

dwashbur wrote:Looks like the stubby is getting ready to nab that roughback sculpin. Is that the case?

No, the fish did not become a dinner....

Since the access to the North Beach will be closed for the winter starting November 1,
I took adavtage of the last three day window to get some dives in there ...

I really do love your over and under blended pictures!

My Canadian friend after dive in the Deception Pass talked me into a dive
at Keystone. Of course, we could not hit the slack at the second location
so instead of having to fight the Deception Pass currents, we went for a ride
at Keystone

That spotting factor on the female kelpies must be a deception pass thing. I have never seen it down here??

Still giving me new things to look for, huh, Jan?

Dusty2 wrote:That spotting factor on the female kelpies must be a deception pass thing. I have never seen it down here??

Dusty: Kelp greenling - both sexes - show up at Mukliteo.
-Curt

Appropriate Halloweeny image!

Do u guys ever see Puget sound king crabs down there???

Juveniles in the Sound and adults in the San Juans.

Diver_Dave wrote:Do u guys ever see Puget sound king crabs down there???

I see juveniles on almost every dive at Keystone, but for the adults, we have to go north, Sares Head on Fidalgo Island, neighbor to Whidbey or San Juan Islands where they are more common.

Tom, you are one fast typing diver, beat me to the answer

Jan K wrote:Tom, you are one fast typing diver, beat me to the answer

Yes, but your answer was way prettier!!

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Spaceship Jellyfish

Great shots on those little critters Jan! A very difficult subject.

Wow -- very timely, Jan! When we were up at God's Pocket, I spent a lot of time looking at the little water jellies, because so many of them had hitchhikers. I thought they were small crabs, but I'll bet they were some kind of amphipod, as in your photos.