into the dark of the Canal

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into the dark of the Canal

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Met up with Bric today after his nice warm, clear diving in the Caribbean for shock therapy into the dark, cold and very rough hood canal. The water viz is pretty much nothing until you get passed 75'. Once past that it is fairly clear just dark. Since we lost one main light and one back up light ... malfunction wise..... we only did the one dive.
We did a fairly deep dive and found a stubby squid guarding her nest. Had to tickle her out of the muck to take her picture.
Also found this saber tooth sculpin :dontknow: It is amazing the different kinds of sculpin that we find when we are diving deeper and it's dark.
Still not too many Nudis back, just diamond backs and they seem to be everywhere.
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Cool! Never seen one of those squid things before :thumb3d:
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I'm going to make a guess that that's a padded sculpin who has eaten another small fish . . . but sculpins baffle me, and I'll be interested at what the real experts have to say!
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Looks like a crab leg hanging ou this gob.
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Roughback sculpin ate a crab.
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