Northwest Dive Club

I've run into current there a few times, so it can definitely get you. Anyway, I saw a spiny dogfish for the first time during the surface swim, fifteen feet below us, and a big school of sandlance on the swim back. I did a REEF survey, and counted 27 different kinds of the critters that REEF monito...

Cool, see you there.

You only have to clamber over submerged rocks if you get caught in current coming back, and get blown north. There's some logs on the beach to climb over, but they're not too bad.

Yeah, it can be pretty current sensitive, and the reef structure is a ways from shore. Walking back to the entrance among submerged rocks and logs is a pain in the butt too. I usually do one dive there and call it good.

Tides look good this sunday morning at Saltwater State Park. If you want to do an early morning dive, we could meet at 8, and splash at 8:30am.

I caught my limit within 10 minutes of dropping, although with viz that bad, it felt like I had the place all to myself.

I'm in for an 8pm dive.

Bueller?

Cove 2, or anywhere in West Seattle really, maybe 10am?

Alki Junkyard was 15 feet or so last night. I saw two juvenile wolf eels as well!

Lamont found the fin and returned it to it's rightful owner. Yay!

A friend of mine just lost a fin at Cove 2. It was a ScubaPro Jet fin, size XXL. If anyone finds it, please PM me. Thanx!

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Fascinating. I always wondered what sorts of things ate sunflower stars.

Also, I think it's a male scalyhead because of the big pre-ocular cirri, and big fat head.

Wow, when I google brachiopod, or washington brachiopod, I get mostly images and articles about fossils. Not so much about current species. Are they really boring to study or something?

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/7126187237_e0971472f0_z.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/fnerg/7126187237/in/set-72157629928462879 I see these guys all over the place, there's bunches of them at Saltwater State Park. Are they some sort of scallop? This one was at Cove 2, on one of the cinderbloc...

Cove 2 tonight was 10-15 feet all the way down to 100 fsw.

Murk-tastic.

Cool! I saw some sea cucumber eggs floating around at Cove 2 in the shallows a few weeks ago, and was wondering what they were. I was thinking flourescent green styrofoam or something.

Ah-hah! I got it. You have to use the shortened URL, not the full URL.

Aaaaalright, is YouTube posting broken?

Here's a video I got of an octo at Cove 2 this wednesday under the Honey Bear: [youtube]http://youtu.be/qgZRUCDan3M[/youtube] Interesting tidbit: Using voodoo magic, YouTube detects whether the video you uploaded is shaky, and then offers to do image stabilization for you! This sometimes creates wei...

I've also seen that(?) scale crab by the I-Beams at Cove 2. Cool critters.

Wow, I bet protecting the environment never tasted so good!

Well cool, that's a first for me! Thanks!

So I've been seeing this stuff, whatever it is all over the place lately: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7246/6879957444_f9f6a2c4a9_z.jpg I don't know if it's eggs, a sponge of some sort, or what. What in the heck is it? And I think this is a stout shrimp, but I dunno. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7...