Northwest Dive Club

Well I give up!

I guess the link to the image did not work!

Let's try again!

tHANK YOU ALL! gOSH` I hven't been here in a while! I need to get used to these buttons again! I am looking for a buddy/buddies to dive with this weekend but i guessthis is not the right place for this so but I tell uyou anyway! If you are coming on Whidbey Island to dive give me a buzz! More detail...

coachrenz wrote:Hey tubesnout -

Just in case you didn't know, Greg Jensen is THE resident expert. He has written a book on the Crabs and Shrimp in the Northwest. If he says that is what it was, then that is what it was. You can check out the link in his profile to get to his book.

OK!

Good night

Greg Jensen wrote:The legs look a lot shorter when they're folded up in the swimming position, as you first described. Here's a P. goniurus.

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Ah! I never seen a shrimp swimming in the water colum like that before!

Thanks again for your help!

Welcome! I suspect you saw either an Alaskan pink shrimp (Pandalus eous) or a humpy shrimp (Pandalus goniurus). Both can be very pale at night and your description of their behavior is spot on; they are kind of hard to tell apart when they are buzzing around. Here's a P. eous: Thank you. The back l...

coachrenz wrote:Maybe a female kelp greenling?

I don't think so! It did not have the 'slender' look that a greenling has. It was more chubby without any spots or markings.

Ooopppsss... Of course if they are required... Oh well, at least they are sort of cheap.... I beleive standard gloves are 5mm? I know a couple of gals who wear inserts, and the ones that get cold really easy use dry gloves with their dry suit! What kind of inserts are you talking about? I wear a sm...

Sorry for skipping this introduction earlier on but I couldn't wait to test your knowledge of the local marine life by sending a couple of posts with sketchy animal descriptions and without photographs!

Cheers

Hi again! Sorry but I do not have a picture of the fish that has been making me puzzle since I met it several weeks ago. (I am still a beginner and I do not take the camera on every dive). I was in 20 ft of water and all at sudden I saw a wonderful yellow-orange fish that looked like a big sculpin w...

Hello folks! I am new to Northwest Dive Club blog so I am not sure what is what and where is where yet! Be patient! Unfortunately I do not have a photograph of the shrimp that I would like to identify. It is white and several inches long, I could see its guts through its skin and it would swim with ...