Previous 25| Dive # 325 | Date: August 29, 1998. | Location: Ansell Point |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 80' | PSI Used: 1300 psi air |
| Max depth: 100 feet | Time: 29 minutes | Total Hours: 175:57 |
| Comments: Hmm.... Derek had the male from the pair of deeper eels out and eating from his hand! Never seen that before - usually the eel just watches us warily. Not as big as the other fellow; this one is maybe 5 feet long, and quite dark in color still. Found a weight from a downrigger, saw a gunnel, all kinds of rockfish and lings, as well as greenlings and the likes. | ||
| Dive # 324 | Date: August 27, 1998; | Location: Whytecliff |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 900 psi air |
| Max depth: 62 feet | Time: 43 minutes | Total Hours: 175:28 |
| Comments: Wow.... we did the Islet, and we were just swimming along, me slightly behind them enjoying everything there. Lots of ronquils and gobies, and all kinds of small shiny fish in the dark, as well as tubesnouts with no fear whatsoever - they swim right up to you and your light before they dart away. A small octopus swam right in front of my mask. Didn't want to play with anyone, just kept going deeper. But neat anyways!! And swimming back in the shallows, with lights out, watching the little fish create the sparkly trails is aboslutely incredible. | ||
| Dive # 323 | Date: August 27, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1300 psi Nitrox 27 |
| Max depth: 72 feet | Time: 45 minutes | Total Hours: 174:45 |
| Comments: Swam out to do the Daymarker - gorgeous dive. Clear, cold water, fields of white anemones, kelp greenlings, perch, rockfish, and lings galore. Both plaques, and the bronze eagle too. And a HUGE red jellyfish, upside down on the wall. Seapens - huge, and shimmering neon green in the night. | ||
| Dive # 322 | Date: August 25, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 25' | PSI Used: 1100 psi air |
| Max depth: 55 feet | Time: 45 minutes | Total Hours: 174:00 |
| Comments: Absolutely incredible bioluminescence!! We descended without lights (don't try this at home!), just enjoying the amazing sparkles. Made fins and bodies light up and turn almost ghostly. Couple of different fish, some sculpins and a snailfish. An octopus in a crack - wouldn't budge. But a pretty dive... | ||
| Dive # 321 | Date: August 25, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 25' | PSI Used: 1700 psi air |
| Max depth: 125 feet | Time: 50 minutes | Total Hours: 173:15 |
| Comments: Went down to see the big octopus. He was well in there, wouldn't come out to play. But he wiggled when I banged a rock. Lots of sailfin sculpins, greenlings, lings, nudibranchs of every size, shape, and color | ||
| Dive # 320 | Date: August 23, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff |
| Purpose: OW #4 | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 900 psi air |
| Max depth: 69 feet | Time: 31 minutes | Total Hours: 172:25 |
| Comments: Did the Daymarker - beautiful dive. Couple of seals on the rocks, one was sticking his tongue out at us as we swam past and said hello. Didn't seem concerned in the least about us. Greenlings galore, lots of rockfish and lingcod too, and tiny sculpins hopping everywhere. Alabaster nudibranchs. Gorgeous white plumose anemone fields. A current that pushed us around the end - like flying. Great dive. | ||
| Dive # 319 | Date: August 23, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff |
| Purpose: OW #3 | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 40' | PSI Used: 1100 psi Nitrox 26 |
| Max depth: 67 feet | Time: 34 minutes | Total Hours: 171:54 |
| Comments: An octopus in a hollow at about 55'. Lots of seapens and cloud sponges, couple of great sculpins, and a buffalo sculpin too. Rockfish, lings, greenlings, anemones of all shapes, sizes and colors. And a cloud of teeny tiny shrimp. | ||
| Dive # 318 | Date: August 22, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff |
| Purpose: AOW night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 500 psi air |
| Max depth: 30 feet | Time: 31 minutes | Total Hours: 171:20 |
| Comments: Wow! A dogfish at the corner - came out of nowhere, swam around us for quite some time. I think he was confused by all the lights. Finally swam off, but was back again almost right away. Lots of large Dungeness skittering away as we swam back in to the bay. | ||
| Dive # 317 | Date: August 22, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: AOW Naturalist | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 500 psi Nitrox 33 |
| Max depth: 42 feet | Time: 29 minutes | Total Hours: 170:49 |
| Comments: All kinds of stuff!! An octopus, brittlestars, seastars of all colors - purple, orange, red, blue, yellow. Quillback rockfish, kelp greenlings, rock greenlings, a buffalo sculpin, longfin sculpins, a grunt sculpin, lingcod, blackeye and bay gobies, ronquils, a scalyhead sculpin, a bay pipefish, perch of almost every kind. Tube dwelling anemones, plumose anemones, feather stars. Everywhere you looked there was something else! | ||
| Dive # 316 | Date: Augst 22, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: AOW Deep | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1100 psi Nitrox 33 |
| Max depth: 103 feet | Time: 23 minutes | Total Hours: 170:20 |
| Comments: Always amusing to see the names written backwards..... good dive. | ||
| Dive # 315 | Date: August 22, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: AOW Search & Recovery | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 400 psi Nitrox 33 |
| Max depth: 25 feet | Time: 20 minutes | Total Hours: 169:57 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive # 314 | Date: August 22, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: OW #2 | Access: shore | Weather: clearing |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1000 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 49 feet | Time: 38 minutes | Total Hours: 169:37 |
| Comments: Dove the smiley wall... fish everywhere! Perch in big schools, lots of rockfish too. The octopus, curled in his usual spot. A grunt sculpin, countless smaller sculpins. And seastars in uncountable numbers. | ||
| Dive # 313 | Date: August 22, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: OW #1 | Access: shore | Weather: overcast |
| Water Temp: 51 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 1000 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 50 feet | Time: 30 minutes | Total Hours: 168:59 |
| Comments: Well, the drysuit zipper patch held... :-) | ||
| Dive # 312 | Date: August 21, 1998. | Location: Porteau Cove |
| Purpose: AOW Wreck | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 30' | PSI Used: 900 psi Nitrox 31 |
| Max depth: 55 feet | Time: 30 minutes | Total Hours: 168:29 |
| Comments: Did the Granthall - quite the current!! Couple of bigger lings on it, and a huge one swimming in the hold. A red jellyfish. Schools of perch and the white plumose anemones on the wreck make for a gorgeous setting. | ||
| Dive # 311 | Date: August 20, 1998. | Location: Ansell Point |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1400 psi air |
| Max depth: 93 feet | Time: 42 minutes | Total Hours: 167:59 |
| Comments: Okay, saw some really freaked out wormie thing that I can't identify. We were at about 60', and there was a brownish centipede-like creature scurrying up a rock. Sat there and watched it, then thought "Jeez, if this was on dry ground I'd be running in the other direction!" and left. The bioluminescence was incredible!! | ||
| Dive # 310 | Date: August 20, 1998. | Location: Ansell Point |
| Purpose: night | Access: shore | Weather: clear |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1500 psi air |
| Max depth: 97 feet | Time: 40 minutes | Total Hours: 167:17 |
| Comments: Nice dive... saw all the wolf-eels, although the pair wouldn't have anything to do with us. | ||
| Dive # 309 | Date: August 17, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: cloudy |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 10' | PSI Used: 1300 psi air |
| Max depth: 65 feet | Time: 36 minutes | Total Hours: 166:37 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive # 308 | Date: August 17, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff |
| Purpose: | Access: shore | Weather: cloudy |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 10' | PSI Used: 1000 psi air |
| Max depth: 91 feet | Time: 26 minutes | Total Hours: 166:01 |
| Comments: Vis less than ideal; - broke around 60'. | ||
| Dive # 307 | Date: August 14, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: OW #4 | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 500 psi air |
| Max depth: 50 feet | Time: 32 minutes | Total Hours: 165:35 |
| Comments: Octopus on the wall. And a SALMON, chasing a school of small fish! | ||
| Dive # 306 | Date: August 14, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: OW #3 | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 53 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 900 psi air |
| Max depth: 67 feet | Time: 25 minutes | Total Hours: 165:03 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive # 305 | Date: August 13, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff |
| Purpose: OW #2 | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 700 psi Nitrox 33 |
| Max depth: 22 feet | Time: 23 minutes | Total Hours: 164:28 |
| Comments: | ||
| Dive #304 | Date: August 13, 1998. | Location: Whytecliff |
| Purpose: OW #1 | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 60' | PSI Used: 900 psi Nitrox 33 |
| Max depth: 47 feet | Time: 26 minutes | Total Hours: 164:15 |
| Comments: Absolutely incredible visibility. And astounding fish life. | ||
| Dive # 303 | Date: August 9, 1998. | Location: North Bowyer |
| Purpose: REEF survey | Access: boat | Weather: to die for |
| Water Temp: 53F | Visibility: 40' | PSI Used: 1400 psi Nitrox 32 |
| Max depth: 67 feet | Time: 40 minutes | Total Hours: 163:51 |
| Comments: Doing a REEF survey (www.REEF.org). Nice dive with some great people - Pacific Coast Ocean Explorers (www.pcoa.bc.ca) graciously donated a boat trip for us. Lots of lings and black eyed gobies, and the usual assortment of quillback and copper rockfish. A couple of kelp greenlings, too - they were rather scarce, but we found a number towards the end of the dive. An unusual experience with a ronquil for me - ronquils are usually quite shy, hiding under rocks, but this one came swimming out to meet me nose to nose. A Puget Sound King crab too, under a rock. Small sculpins as we ascended and did a safety stop on the top of the pinnacle. A giant swimming nudibranch, eating a tube-dwelling anemone. | ||
| Dive # 302 | Date: August 8, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: OW #2 | Access: shore | Weather: perfect |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 800 psi air |
| Max depth: 43 feet | Time: 25 minutes | Total Hours: 163:11 |
| Comments: OW #2. Lots of seastars and brittlestars. A red jellyfish. Perch cleaning the shallower reef. A grunt sculpin and lots of rockfish. | ||
| Dive # 301 | Date: August 8, 1998. | Location: Kelvin Grove |
| Purpose: OW #1 | Access: shore | Weather: sunny |
| Water Temp: 55 F | Visibility: 20' | PSI Used: 1000 psi air |
| Max depth: 37 feet | Time: 32 minutes | Total Hours: 162:46 |
| Comments: OW #1. Good strong group, few problems with weights, though! Lots of perch as we descended, a few flounders. And a couple of rockfish. A slow-motion starfish fight. :-) | ||