<Penopolypants> "I, for one, would welcome our new cowboy octopus overlords."
<LCF> "There is ALWAYS another day to dive, as long as you get home today."
I did the dive. Lots of great critters but no dungeness big enough to eat.
Slack was also earlier than that NOAA chart, so I had light to moderate current the whole time, but it wasn’t too bad. My best guess is it was off by about a half hour to an hour.
The structure was mostly beds of clam shells and some abandoned crab pots and stuff.
I saw two enormous tritonia diomedea which was cool, and two sharks of some kind. The first one I thought was a dogfish but I saw one larger one and it’s tail looked a bit too round to be that of a dogfish. With vis only 4-5’ it was hard to tell.
YellowEye wrote:Wow, now I'm intrigued about those sharks!
Was it one of these, perhaps a juvenile?
What a cool infographic!
Well, looking at these shapes I’m unsure still. The spiny dogfish actually has one of the less pointy tails out of those pictured. I’m thinking it definitely wasn’t the basking shark! The color was reddish brown. I remember dogfish being more grey colored. It’s possible they were juveniles. They weren’t together, I saw them at different points during the dive and one was clearly bigger than the other so I’m sure it wasn’t the same shark.
You’ve got me stumped! Any guesses based on the color?