Northwest Dive Club

I'm not very good with little fishies so what is he?

I thought so but I was told they don't eat crabs. Hmmm guess the pros don't know it all!

The question is "What's got him?" I can see the crab legs but can't make out what's having him for dinner.

Here is a unique one for you. They are a cuthona flavovulta. These guys are extremely small and only those who have real good eyes and look really close will ever "see?" them. http://www.smugmug.com/photos/288815424_GrsyW-L.jpg http://www.smugmug.com/photos/288815807_R327q-L.jpg http://www...

Dendronotus Subramosus, Laying eggs (not often seen in puget sound) http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/289151622_wQ6qu-L.jpg http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/289152055_47z3A-L.jpg A nice janolus fuscus, with great detail of the internal workings http://www.smugmug.com/photos/288717941_5h...

These three are often confused. Hope this will help unconfuse them These are Heath's dorids. note that the tubricles (little bumps) are not very pronounced and they are random in size. Also the black markings do not cover the tubricles. Another giveaway is the the rinophores are round, smooth and fa...

Here are a couple of critters that I need ID's for http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/288856174_S2woi-L.jpg http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/288856183_pCZHs-L.jpg http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/288720384_YZWe8-L.jpg http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/288853536_ocUPa-L.jpg

I didn't know that the grunt sculpin could change colors to match his environment like octos and other critters but Wednesday I made this awesome discovery! When I came on this little guy he way snuggled against a yellow sponge. If I hadn't seen the two huge Monterey dorids on the sponge and stopped...

Sea of Green wrote:What camera are you using?

Canon Powershot A650 in an Ikelite housing with an external strobe and a Nocturnal lights LED focus light.

Hey Tom one really good way to tell that these are side gills other than the absence of gill plumes is that the rinophores come from under the upper body skirt in the front instead of out of the top

Yep, that's what it is. We found our first ones on one of our boat dives, I forget which one. They don't seem to be that widespread, so when you find one it's quite a treat. Apparently kind of like those golden dironas, which we never got to see :crybaby: Ya gotta have good timing for the Golden di...

A little help here? They look like mushrooms but I'm pretty sure they are sponges of some sort.

This flower has thorns

Not really flowers and not really berries but just as pretty and all taken at 3 Tree north Tuesday. http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/280606704_VzqFX-L.jpg http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/280606825_eMDb5-L.jpg http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/280607477_ArbU2-L.jpg This little bu...

Very nice, Tom. I agree with you on it being the Berthella californica. I saw my first one only couple month ago on Young Island near Fidalgo Island. Never saw one before, although I remember other people finding them in the Sound south of Whidbey. Watch it, now they will show up everywhere :) LIke...

Bummer, Something always seems to fail when you find something interesting. :angryfire: How about posting some egg pix. I don't think I have seen hooded eggs before Dave, I read your report on diving the Idaho pond :), I am affraid that soon we will be getting our share of planktonic soup to look t...

Thanks for that shot, Jan! Now I'll be on the look for the little white "umbrellas" in the eelgrass, and when I find them, I'll know what they are. Funny that the hooded nudis are winter creatures there; at Edmonds, they seem to teem through the spring and summer. Maybe that's where they ...

Bummer, Something always seems to fail when you find something interesting. :angryfire: How about posting some egg pix. I don't think I have seen hooded eggs before Tis the season. Soon that brown yuk will be covering everything again making it difficult to find our little critters in the shallower ...

A couple of nice versacolors, natures little flames underwater my favorite nudies this guy has a little friend look to his right for a tiny subramoses http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/268763689_h6UfK-L.jpg http://underthesound.smugmug.com/photos/277754732_4KaMB-L.jpg http://underthesound.smug...

Is the RIL sitting on eggs? Not that I could see. He was just a big fella that wasn't going to move away from his favorite spot. As for the lings head it looks like that cause he was spreading his cheek's and making himself as big and menacing as he could. just after I snapped the pick he clobbered...

Keep this up and janna wil ban you from posting here. LOL She has never seen one. :violent3: Oh yeah fine. Rub it in why doncha? I've HEARD that PSL sightings are best done in Dec - Feb. And that when you find them that time of year, it's usually in very shallow water. (15 ft or so) So I'm thinking...

This what I would rather see at Langly with those eggs