Dive # 200 Date: March 15, 1998. Location: Cooper's Green
Purpose: Access: shore Weather: not bad at all
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 15' PSI Used: 1000 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 66 feet Time: 29 minutes Total Hours: 107:57
Comments: Big lings, an octopus, a wolf-eel (no, Karli, NOT a ling with big teeth!). Nudibranchs galore.
 
Dive #199 Date: March 15, 1998. Location: Cooper's Green
Purpose: Access: shore Weather: not bad
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 15' PSI Used: 1000 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 60 feet Time: 26 minutes Total Hours: 107:28
Comments: An octopus in a crack, could see his eyes and horns. Lots of fish. A bright orange nudibranch.
 
Dive # 198 Date: March 14, 1998. Location: Kelvin Grove
Purpose: Access: shore Weather: overcast
Water Temp: 50 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 1400 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 104 feet Time: 42 minutes Total Hours: 107:02
Comments: Octopus under a rock - seemed to want to look at us as much as we wanted to look at him!
 
Dive # 197 Date: Narch 14, 1998. Location: Porteau - Nakaya
Purpose: wreck dive Access: shore Weather: overcast
Water Temp: 50 F Visibility: 10' PSI Used: 1200 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 94 feet Time: 35 minutes Total Hours: 106:20
Comments: Horrible vis in top 50' - like tomato soup. Hell of a long swim. big ling under bow, toilet on back deck, school of silver fish.
 
Dive # 196 Date: March 10, 1998. Location: Ansell Point
Purpose: night Access: shore Weather: gross
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 10' PSI Used: 1400psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 91 feet Time: 38 minutes Total Hours: 105:45
Comments: No vis in top 50 feet. Found wolf-eel, said hello. Snowcrabs, anemones, lings, greenlings.
Dive # 195 Date: March 8, 1998. Location: Whytecliff
Purpose: Access: shore Weather: raining
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 1000 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 92 feet Time: 28 minutes Total Hours: 105:07
Comments: Six dives at Whytecliff in one week are too much!
 
Dive # 194 Date: March 8, 1998. Location: Whytecliff
Purpose: Access: shore Weather: raining
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 900 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 90 feet Time: 31 minutes Total Hours: 114:32
Comments:
Dive # 193 Date: March 7, 1998. Location: Whytecliff
Purpose: Access: shore Weather: some clouds
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 1100 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 75 feet Time: 28 minutes Total Hours: 104:02
Comments:
 
Dive # 192 Date: March 7, 1998. Location: Whytecliff
Purpose: drysuit orientation Access: shore Weather: partial clear
Water Temp: 48F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 1000 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 74 feet Time: 28 minutes Total Hours: 103:34
Comments:
 
Dive # 191 Date: March 6, 1998. Location: Whytecliff
Purpose: night Access: shore Weather: clear
Water Temp: 50 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 1650 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 109 feet Time: 44 minutes Total Hours: 103:06
Comments: Seal just as we descended. Beds of anemones. Seapen - glowed green as I stroked it. Prawns. huge lings.
 
Dive # 190 Date: March 4, 1998. Location: Whytecliff
Purpose: night Access: shore Weather: clear
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 20' PSI Used: 1200 psi air
Max depth: 130 feet Time: 33 minutes Total Hours: 102:22
Comments: Octopus sitting just outside his den - scooted back in when he spied me. Crawled around in top 30' - best part of dive!
 
Dive # 189 Date: March 1, 1998. Location: Kelvin Grove
Purpose: Access: shore Weather: raining
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 40' PSI Used: 900 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 86 feet Time: 33 minutes Total Hours: 101:49
Comments:
 
Dive # 188 Date: March 1, 1998. Location: Kelvin Grove
Purpose: Access: shore Weather: raining
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 1400 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 108 feet Time: 28 minutes Total Hours: 101:13
Comments:
 
Dive # 187 Date: February 28, 1998. Location: Mannion Bay
Purpose: Access: shore Weather: overcast
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 1100 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 49 feet Time: 41 minutes Total Hours: 100:45
Comments: Lots of neat bottles, found an old Canada Dry and couple of Orange Crush, as well as a small Coke.
 
Dive # 186 Date: February 25, 1998. Location: White Rock pier
Purpose: night crabbing Access: shore Weather: clear
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 1' PSI Used: 500 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 14 feet Time: 24 minutes Total Hours: 100:04
Comments: Some anemones along the rocks. Couple of small fish.
 
Dive # 185 Date: February 24, 1998. Location: Kelvin Grove
Purpose: AOW Night Access: shore Weather: overcast
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 900 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 53 feet Time: 35 minutes Total Hours: 99:40
Comments:
 
Dive # 184 Date: February 22, 1998. Location: Cooper's Green
Purpose: AOW Naturalist Access: shore Weather: sunny
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 900 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 61 feet Time: 28 minutes Total Hours: 99:05
Comments:
Dive # 183 Date: February 22, 1998. Location: Cooper's Green
Purpose: AOW Deep Access: shore Weather: clearing
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 600 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 90 feet Time: 11 minutes Total Hours: 98:37
Comments: Small problem at 90 feet, called the dive.
 
Dive # 182 Date: February 21, 1998. Location: Ansell Point
Purpose: night Access: shore Weather: raining
Water Temp: 46 F Visibility: 30' PSI Used: 1400 psi air
Max depth: 105 feet Time: 32 minutes Total Hours: 98:26
Comments: Ian's birthday dive. Kept kicking what I thought was my buddy - til I realized that both of my buddies were staring at whatever I was kicking.... turned around to find a lovely inquisitive seal, which made the dive just SUPERB!
 
Dive # 181 Date: February 21, 1998. Location: Whiskey Cove
Purpose: AOW Search & Rec Access: shore Weather: raining
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 20' PSI Used: 400 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 39 feet Time: 21 minutes Total Hours: 97:54
Comments:
 
Dive # 180 Date: February 21, 1998. Location: Whiskey Cove
Purpose: AOW Navigation Access: shore Weather: raining
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 20' PSI Used: 900 psi Nitrox 33
Max depth: 35 feet Time: 23 minutes Total Hours: 97:33
Comments:
 
Dive # 179 Date: February 15, 1998. Location: Norris Rocks
Purpose: Access: boat Weather: overcast
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 80' PSI Used: 1000 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 33 feet Time: 45 minutes Total Hours: 97:10
Comments: More playing with sealions... getting brave! They seem to come in waves - every time we swam away!
 
Dive # 178 Date: February 15, 1998. Location: Norris Rocks
Purpose: Access: boat Weather: sunny
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 80' PSI Used: 900 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 24 feet Time: 51 minutes Total Hours: 96:25
Comments: Niall spun for the sealions, they looked like they were enjoying it. One swam down and settled on a rock - got some cute pics. Crawled up over a rock ledge in about 15 feet of water and were met by a couple of smaller faces staring back at us
 
Dive # 177 Date: February 14, 1998. Location: Ford Cove
Purpose: night Access: shore Weather: overcast
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 60' PSI Used: 1400 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 47 feet Time: 50 minutes Total Hours: 95:34
Comments: Great bioluminescence! Found an octopus - very messy housekeeper. Lots of fish.
 
Dive # 176 Date: February 14, 1998. Location: Toby Point
Purpose: Access: boat Weather: rainy
Water Temp: 48 F Visibility: 60' PSI Used: 1400 psi Nitrox 32
Max depth: 87 feet Time: 44 minutes Total Hours: 94.44
Comments: Uhhhh.... with a buddy who did the *swim as fast as you can while kicking up the bottom* routine. DID see some big lings and a couple of nudibranchs, didn't really have a chance to see anything else... :-S
 

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