Dives #451 & 452 - China Creek - 27 December 2020
Dive 1 to migrant ship wreck, dive 2 to boom boat and wall. Camera housing leaked both dives, so photos only above 50 ft. Camera shut off below. Top 10ft was freshwater and cold AF.
Highlights included 3 juvenile wolf eels (2 out and about - one shot out under an oar I picked up; 1 tucked into a crevice but very curious), 2 grunt sculpins (including one out and about on the boom boat), 2 decorated warbonnets (1 on boom boat, 1 in boot sponge with eggs). 2 bat stars (too deep for leaking camera). 2 batwing sea angels. The biggest armed hermit crab I've ever seen, in a moonsnail shell. A school of yellow tail rockfish that would come up and school around me. Lingcod with eggs at 67ft. Green sea urchin with a wooden bo.
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Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Velcro Star (Stylasterias forreri)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Dungeness Crab (Metacarcinus magister)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Lewis's Moon Snail (Neverita lewisii)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Velcro Star (Stylasterias forreri)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Armed Hermit Crab (Pagurus armatus)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
By far the biggest Armed Hermit Crab I've ever seen. It was living in a Moonsnail shell!
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Pacific Staghorn Sculpin (Leptocottus armatus)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Pacific Batwing Seaslug (Gastropteron pacificum)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Buffalo Sculpin (Enophrys bison)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)Observer
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Day dive along the sand to the migrant ship wreck at China Creek.
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Decorated Warbonnet (Chirolophis decoratus)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Kelp Greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Monterey Dorid (Doris montereyensis)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Monterey Dorid (Doris montereyensis)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Eelgrass (Zostera marina)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Greater Moon Jelly (Aurelia labiata)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Slime Star (Pteraster tesselatus)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Arctic Green Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Odhner's Dorid (Doris odhneri)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Red Dendronotid (Dendronotus rufus)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Heath's Dorid (Geitodoris heathi)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Freckled Dorid (Peltodoris lentiginosa)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Decorated Warbonnet (Chirolophis decoratus)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Family ThoridaeObserver
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
Didn't spot the shrimp until I got home, but they're living in the boot sponge with the warbonnet.
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Copper Rockfish (Sebastes caurinus)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Yellowtail Rockfish (Sebastes flavidus)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Remarkable Red Chiton (Tonicella insignis)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Great Sculpin (Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Ascidia paratropaObserver
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Black Rockfish (Sebastes melanops)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Icy Tunicate (Corella willmeriana)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
What I'm really curious about is what's inside this tunicate. There were two tunicates with similar inhabitants near each other, but none of the rest of the tunicates on the dive had them.
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Orange Puffball Sponge (Tethya californiana)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Monterey Dorid (Doris montereyensis)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Greenlings (Family Hexagrammidae)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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Heath's Dorid (Geitodoris heathi)Observer
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Day dive at China Creek - boom boat and wall. Camera leaked, so shots aren't great.
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