Northwest Dive Club

Correct on the first one (Heptacarpus brevirostris). The second is a deep blade shrimp, Spirontocaris prionota. It's sitting on a hermit crab, Pagurus caurinus.

They turn up in Washington and BC every once in a while, so Sitka doesn't seem out of the question.

They are very interesting fish- very common under rocks at low tide, so lots of them are shallower than where divers are usually looking. As juveniles they feed on things like small crustaceans, but as they mature they develop specialized, wedgelike teeth that they use to pop off and eat limpets. Th...

Yes, it's a Placetron. If this was by Alki then it's the furthest down into the Sound that I've heard of one.
The fish is a snake prickleback.

Hi all sorry for the cross-posting, but I'm trying to reach as many critter-savvy divers as possible. This is the time of year when female dungeness crab extrude their egg masses and bury themselves in sand or mud while they incubate their brood. There are certain areas (e.g., Mukilteo, right where ...