Previous 25| Dive # 250 | Date: June 4, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 15' | PSI Used: 1500 psi Nitrox 33 |
| Max depth: 109 feet | Time: 45 minutes | Total Hours: 135:17 |
| Comments: Nothing quite like the feeling of cold water trickling down a wrinkle in your neck seal - thank God for polypropelene! Saw a BIG octopus in the crack with the red brotula, who turned and started back at me as if to say "Get your light away from me!". Lots of quillbacks hiding in crevices, a juvenile yelloweye behind a sponge. Some big sponges, too, with squat lobsters peering out. Seapens everywhere, shimmering neon green when touched. Shrimp and prawns hopping, ronquils and gobies darting for cover and then peering warily back at me. A rock greenling I got so close to I think I could have kissed him. Another octopus, tucked under a rock overhang, less that excited to see me. A small ling, some kelp greenlings. Discovered a small octopus on the sand in 50 feet of water - he was maybe a foot across from tip to tip. Got him to swim a bit, watched him settle down and "land" in then typical umbrella fashion - always neat. Lots of tiny shrimp darting in my light, some jellies, and lots of crabs, sculpins, and tubesnouts as we crawled through the shallow rocks. | ||
| Dive # 249 | Date: May 31, 1998. | Location: HMCS MacKenzie |
| Purpose: wreck | Access: boat | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 2000 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 78 feet | Time: 35 minutes | Total Hours: 134:32 |
| Comments: What a GREAT dive! Down Burma Road 'til we ran out of line - managed to get back this time without getting anyone tangled up in the line! :-) Went in the wheelhouse and up a flight of stairs, then out and along the ship. Back in a doorway in the front, through a couple of rooms, and out up the top deck. Lots of plumose living inside the ship, and lots of current to deal with. Swimming scallops everywhere! Watched a group of shrimp eating a scallop as we waited for Karli at the bottom of the line. Saw Dall's porpoises on the boat ride home - swimming in the wake and up alongside the boat, as well as seals everywhere.... | ||
| Dive # 248 | Date: May 31, 1998. | Location: HMCS MacKenzie |
| Purpose: wreck | Access: boat | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 2100 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 81 feet | Time: 42 minutes | Total Hours: 133:57 |
| Comments: Did a little penetration with the reel - down Burma Road and into Radio 2, where all the knobs and switches are frozen tight (yes, I definitely tried to flip them!). Turned around - area too small for all 4 of us - so Karli had to back out... created quite the silt-out! But that's why we had the line.... Silt so bad I ran smack-dab with my mask into the corner of a wall and still didn't see it... :-) But we got turned around and past it just fine, and everything was good again. Lots of openings to get out anyways. Then swam up to the front and in, through a couple of rooms and out the side, part way down the ship. Starting to run out of ND time, so we headed slowly back to the line and up, both of us somewhat reluctant to surface! On the boat ride over, saw lots of porpoises swimming, and a pod of killer whales, but I couldn't convince them to come dive with us, despite my best attempts... :-) GREAT diving - nothing but the best! | ||
| Dive # 247 | Date: May 30, 1998. | Location: Cates Park |
| Purpose: drysuit | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 5' | PSI Used: 600 psi air |
| Max depth: 35 feet | Time: 22 minutes | Total Hours: 133:15 |
| Comments: Wow.... a ling at Cates! :-) Swam out to the pipes, cruised around, not really too much vis out there. Saw a prickleback on the swim back in, and a gunnel just as we got out. Rescued him - he was caught in the rocks, so I picked him up and put him in deeper water, where he wiggled off happily... | ||
| Dive # 246 | Date: May 30, 1998. | Location: Cates Park |
| Purpose: drysuit | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 5' | PSI Used: 600 psi air |
| Max depth: 30 feet | Time: 19 minutes | Total Hours: 132:53 |
| Comments: Vis cleared somewhat at 25 feet... cruised around checking out the mutant crabs and such... :-) | ||
| Dive # 245 | Date: May 28, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff Cut |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1600 psi air |
| Max depth: 119 feet | Time: 41 minutes | Total Hours: 132:34 |
| Comments: Rockfish - black, copper, yellowtail, quillback, juvenile yelloweye. Ronquils. Gobies. Grunt sculpin. Male & female kelp greenlings, painted greenlings, lingcod, crabs, nudibranchs, seastars, small sculpins. A bit of a current to start, but it provided a lovely ride on the way back... | ||
| Dive # 244 | Date: May 25, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: rainy |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1600 psi air |
| Max depth: 152 feet | Time: 46 minutes | Total Hours: 131:53 |
| Comments: Sailfin sculpin, starry flounder, CO sole. Sanddabs. Rockfish. Greenlings. SPonges. A small ling. All kinds of sculpins. Tons of crabs in sandy area where we spent to last portion of our dive (extended safety stop!) Nice dive. | ||
| Dive # 243 | Date: May 24, 1998. | Location: Keystone |
| Purpose: OW #4 | Access: shore | Weather: cloudy |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1000 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 49 feet | Time: 33 minutes | Total Hours: 131:07 |
| Comments: Bright red crescent gunnel. An octopus. Quillback rockfish, lingcod, kelp greenlings, painted greenlings, a great big grunt sculpin. A scalyhead sculpin, longfin sculpin. White pluome anemones. Hermit crabs, decorator crabs, butterfly crabs, dungeness crab, red rock crab. | ||
| Dive # 242 | Date: May 24, 1998. | Location: Keystone |
| Purpose: OW #3 | Access: shore | Weather: overcast |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1100 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 47 feet | Time: 28 minutes | Total Hours: 130:34 |
| Comments: Mosshead warbonnet just as we descended. A massive ling in a couple of rocks. The "barnacle" fish is back. Greenlings - painted and kelp. Buffalo sculpin. Great sculpin. Tiny shrimp. Crabs galore. All kinds of smaller sculpins, still trying to identify them. | ||
| Dive # 241 | Date: May 23, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: OW #2 | Access: shore | Weather: cloudy |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 5' | PSI Used: 800 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 39 feet | Time: 32 minutes | Total Hours: 130:06 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive # 240 | Date: May 23, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: OW #1 | Access: shore | Weather: cloudy |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 5' | PSI Used: 1200 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 45 feet | Time: 30 minutes | Total Hours: 129:34 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive # 239 | Date: May 20, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: AOW Night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1200 psi air |
| Max depth: 85 feet | Time: 27 minutes | Total Hours: 129:04 |
| Comments: Sturgeon poachers - finally see one, now I see them everywhere.... Plainfin midshipman. Rockfish. Gorgeous bioluminescence.... | ||
| Dive # 238 | Date: May 19, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff Cut |
| Purpose: Night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 51F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1200 psi air |
| Max depth: 97 feet | Time: 34 minutes | Total Hours: 128:37 |
| Comments: A red brotula at Whytecliff! An octopus, a sturgeon poacher (a *first* for me!), a decorated warbonnet, gobies, ronquils, two huge lings in a crack, lots of smaller ones. Kelp greenlings. And rockfish - wow, were there ever rockfish! A tiger in a crack, black, quillback, copper, brown. A juvenile yelloweye. A tiny quillback in a sponge. A longfin sculpin. And the bioluminescence makes everything sparkle.... | ||
| Dive # 237 | Date: May 18, 1998. | Location: Porteau Cove |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1400 psi air |
| Max depth: 52 feet | Time: 47 minutes | Total Hours: 128:03 |
| Comments: Kinda cool - cruised out along the jungle gym, shrimp hopping everywhere there. Made it to the wrecks. Investigated a few lings, laughed at Dennis poking his head out of holes. Did the big dive off the front of the Granthall. Plumose anemones convering the inside of the whellhouse on the Centennial. | ||
| Dive # 236 | Date: May 17, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff Cut |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 40' | PSI Used: 1500 psi air |
| Max depth: 135 feet | Time: 34 minutes | Total Hours: 126:18 |
| Comments: Nice... school of black rockfish at depth. Crystal clear vis down there, and the light was pretty good too! Quillbacks, lings, kelp greenlings. A big seapen, maybe 3 feet tall! | ||
| Dive # 235 | Date: May 16, 1998. | Location: HMCS MacKenzie |
| Purpose: Wreck | Access: boat | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1500 psi air |
| Max depth: 72 feet | Time: 33 minutes | Total Hours: 125:44 |
| Comments: Current was almost slack. Crawled through wreck, Dennis saluted us repeatedly. Down staircase and out. A big cabezon. Three distinctly different nudiranchs. GREAT dive! Short surface interval as we wanted to stay slack... | ||
| Dive # 234 | Date: May 16, 1998. | Location: HMCS MacKenzie |
| Purpose: Wreck | Access: boat | Weather: perfect |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1200 psi air |
| Max depth: 75 feet | Time: 27 minutes | Total Hours: 125:11 |
| Comments: Wow.... what a difference from last year! Swimming scallops everywhere - they *clapped* up around us as we touched the deck. And shrimp.... chased by sculpins. Kelp greenlings. Lings. A GREAT dive, definitely worth doing again soon. | ||
| Dive # 233 | Date: May 12, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 51F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1100 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 91 feet | Time: 38 minutes | Total Hours: 124:44 |
| Comments: A decorated warbonnet, sailfin sculpin. Loads of fish. Did the *Fish tour*. | ||
| Dive # 232 | Date: May 10, 1998. | Location: Bowyer Island North |
| Purpose: REEF survey | Access: boat | Weather: overcast |
| Water Temp: 50 degrees | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1500 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 67 | Time: 38 minutes | Total Hours: 124:06 |
| Comments: Did fish ID survey practice dive for REEF - nice dive, lots of invertebrate life. Fish too - a huge ling under a rock. | ||
| Dive # 231 | Date: May 6, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: AOW Night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 10' | PSI Used: 1000 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 71' | Time: 25 minutes | Total Hours: 123:28 |
| Comments: Vis very poor. | ||
| Dive # 230 | Date: May 3, 1998. | Location: Porteau Cove |
| Purpose: AOW Naturalist | Access: shore | Weather: gorgeous |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 5' | PSI Used: 600 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 34 feet | Time: 20 minutes | Total Hours: 123:03 |
| Comments: An octopus as we descended. A ling, pink tag. Lots of shrimp and little stuff. | ||
| Dive # 229 | Date: May 3, 1998. | Location: Porteau Cove - Nakaya |
| Purpose: AOW Wreck | Access: boat | Weather: perfect |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 800 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 75 feet | Time: 23 minutes | Total Hours: 122:43 |
| Comments: Big ling as we descended. Nice dive! | ||
| Dive # 228 | Date: May 2, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff Cut |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1200 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 71 feet | Time: 32 minutes | Total Hours: 122:20 |
| Comments: Saw an octopus. No vis in top 30 feet. | ||
| Dive # 227 | Date: May 2, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: AOW Navigation | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 600 psi air |
| Max depth: 48 feet | Time: 20 minutes | Total Hours: 121:48 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive # 226 | Date: May 2, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: AOW Deep | Access: shore | Weather: perfectly lovely |
| Water Temp: 50 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1000 psi air |
| Max depth: 106 feet | Time: 25 minutes | Total Hours: 121:28 |
| Comments: Red brotulas in a crack. | ||