Northwest Dive Club

This crabs are sometimes almost impossible to see, so I included almost a "bare butt" and one in full camo outfit

Spring in full swing. Soon baby Painted Greenlings will join us swimming around.

Congratulations Georgia !

sounds interesting, but I am with Grateful Diver on this one. Could you elaborate on the subject easier to understand? Let us in on the secret lives of anemones, please...

Tim, great sequence ! Video works very well for this.

Thanks Janna, I need all the help I can get

Well, after seeing hundreds of crabs in premating embrace, I finally caught pair in the act of making more crabs

Great find and great shot, all the details are there...

or Scalyhead Sculpin

It is amazing that the shrimp (and other crustatians) can crawl out of their old shell and leave it intact without making mess out of it.

Another jelly, this one a common sight ...

The visibility might not be that great lately, but some interesting critters are swimming through the planktonic soup with us ...

Awesome!

Ancula gibbosa - Pacific Ancula - great find Tim !

They are confusing, I agree. I think that #6 might be Hudson's Dorid ( Acanthodoris hudsoni). They too have yellow margins, many times it helps to add the scientific name for lot of the common names are confusing things more then they clarify, for example the Sea Lemon name is attached to yellow slu...

Number 7 is Nanaimo Dorid _ Acanthodoris nanaimoensis

Don't hire these guys to tend your HYDROidPONIC garden....

Janna has explanation for the horns. When the Buffalo Sculpins are dead or about to die, the chin spines stick out like that. I agree, that fish doesn't look that healthy, although in general, this fish are not beauty queens ..

After seeing hundreds of Buffalo Sculpins, this is the first time I found one with spines erected. It was not reaction to my presence, the "horns" were up when I spotted it many feet away...

Great assortment of critters, love the "convention," White-lined Dirona crawling over Cockerell's ... And the other pics great as well !

This weekend I notice that the Plumose Anemones at Keystone were contributing to the already particle filled water with a bigger caliber stuff.

Jellyfish spawn eggs and sperm, which combine in the water. From the fertilized eggs develop invisible blastula, which are hollow spheres of cells. From these develop planulas which swim by means of vibrating hairs. Still invisible to the naked eye. For the next stage, the planulas have to find an e...

Thanks Frank, glad you like my site, even if not all underwater stuff. BTW, that motorhome was not mine, Jeep is all I drive... The plankton soup cutting down visibility to three feet, and that is fuzzy three feet at best, I found three small Sea Pens at Langley. It has been many years since I spott...

Usually, I find the worm with one trumpet only, Worm expert Leslie had this to say about my recent find: Rare but not unknown.  The crowns consist of 2 semicircles of radioles (the individual feathers).  Normally the second dorsalmost radiole on one of the semicircle is modified into the operculum. ...