Boarding the Night Before
|
divers preparing their gear | 
Thai Quach | 
A Ocean Safari diver | 
Crystal & Conan |
divers watching the breifing | 
Gabriel Lu gives the trip briefing | 
Thai Quach & woman dver
watching the breifing | 
Gabriel Lu gives the trip briefing |
Top side at San Nic
|
Sunrise at Nic | 
the sand spit | 
a happy hunter with
a nice Ocean Whitfish | 
a happy hunter |
diver | 
divers & a healthy kelp bed | 
a happy diver | 
Thai Quach |
healthy kelp bed | 
healthy kelp bed | 
Crystal | 
Conan Teng |
San Nicolas Island : Dive 1
|
Leather Star
(Dermasterias imbricata) | 
Orange Puffball Sponge
(Tethya aurantia) &
a White-spotted Rose Anemone
(Urtinca lofotensis) | 
Black-and-Yellow Rockfish
(Sebastes chrysomelas) | 
Black-and-Yellow Rockfish
(Sebastes chrysomelas) |
| | 
Eric Faust | | |
San Nicolas Island : Dive 2
|
Pacific Angel Shark
(Squatina californica) | 
Pacific Angel Shark
(Squatina californica) | 
Porter's Chromodorid
(Mexichromis porterae) | 
Porter's Chromodorid
(Mexichromis porterae) |
Painted Urticna
(Urticna crassicornis) | 
Hermissenda crassicornis | 
Painted Greenling
(Hexagrammos superciliosus) | 
Rock Scallop
(Crassedoma giganteum) |
Leucetta losangelenis | 
Hermissenda crassicornis | 
White Spotted Porostome
(Doriopsilla albopunctata) | 
Sunflower Star
(Pycnopodia helianthoides) |
San Nicolas Island : Dive 3 : The Wall
|
a school of pinheads
Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) | 
Blacksmith (Chromis punctipimmis) | 
"the wall" |
Blue Rockfish (Sebastesmystinus),
Olive Rockfish (Sebastes serranoides),
Blacksmith (Chromis punctipimmis),
and a school of
pinhead Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) |
Spanish Shawls
(Flabellina iodinea)
on the wall | 
on "the wall" | 
3 mating
White Spotted Porostomes
(Doriopsilla albopunctata) | 
3 mating
White Spotted Porostomes
(Doriopsilla albopunctata) |
Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) | 
Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) | 
Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) | 
Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) |
Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) | 
Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) | 
Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) | 
Northern Anchovy
(Engraulis mordax) |
San Nicolas Island : Dive 4 : The Markers
|
Red Volcano Sponge
(Acarnus erithacus) | 
Kelp Rockfish
(Sebastes atrovirens) | 
Black-and-Yellow Rockfish
(Sebastes chrysomelas) | 
three White-spotted Rose Anemones
(Urtinca lofotensis), a Spanish Shawl (Flabelina iodinea),& some Orange Cup Corals (Balanophyllia elegans) |
Stalked Tunicate
(Styela montereyensis)
& Fluted Bryozoan
(Hippodiplosia insculpta) | 
juvenile Cabazon
(Scorpaenichthys marmoratus) | 
juvenile Cabazon
(Scorpaenichthys marmoratus) | 
Black-and-Yellow Rockfish
(Sebastes chrysomelas) |
Sunflower Star
(Pycnopodia helianthoides) | 
a view of the kelp mat from below | 
Stalked Tunicate
(Styela montereyensis)
& Fluted Bryozoan
(Hippodiplosia insculpta) | 
Giant Spined Stars
(Pisaster giganteus) |
Painted Greenling
(Hexagrammos superciliosus)
& White-spotted Rose Anemones
(Urtinca lofotensis) | 
?? worm | 
Fluted Bryozoan
(Hippodiplosia insculpta)
& White-spotted Rose Anemones
(Urtinca lofotensis) | 
Wart-Neck Piddock
(Chaceia ovoidea) |
diver with a canera | 
diver with a camera | 
Giant Spined Star
(Pisaster giganteus) | 
California Sheephead
(Semicossyphus pulcher) |
Top side at SBI
|
DM Luis Torres | 
diving is a glamour sport! | 
Dr. Evil | 
divers |
Santa Barbara Island : Dive 1 : East Kelp
|
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) |
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) |
Santa Barbara Island : Dive 2 : Hidden Reef
|
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) |
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) |
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) |
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Steve & a Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Male Torpedo Ray
(Torpedo californica) | 
Painted Urticna
(Urticna crassicornis) |
Spiny Brittle Star
(Ophiothrix spiculata) | 
Spiny Brittle Star
(Ophiothrix spiculata) | 
Spiny Brittle Star
(Ophiothrix spiculata) | 
Spiny Brittle Star
(Ophiothrix spiculata) |
Giant Kelp
(Macrocystis integrifolia) | 
Giant Kelp
(Macrocystis integrifolia) | 
Giant Kelp
(Macrocystis integrifolia) | 
Giant Kelp
(Macrocystis integrifolia) |
Santa Barbara Island : Dive 3 : Webster Point
|
Red Sea Urchin
(Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) | 
Opaleye (Girella nigricans) | 
Opaleye (Girella nigricans) | 
Black Surfperch
(Embiotoca jacksoni) |
Pile Surfperch
(Damalichthys vacca) | 
Black Surfperch
(Embiotoca jacksoni)
and Pile Surfperch
(Damalichthys vacca) | 
Black Surfperch
(Embiotoca jacksoni) | 
Pile Surfperch
(Damalichthys vacca) |
Black Surfperch
(Embiotoca jacksoni) | 
Black Surfperch
(Embiotoca jacksoni) | 
Opaleye (Girella nigricans) | 
Opaleye (Girella nigricans) |
Black Surfperch
(Embiotoca jacksoni) | 
Black Surfperch
(Embiotoca jacksoni) | 
Tylodina fungina
feeding on Sulpher Sponge
(Aplysina fistularis) | 
Tylodina fungina
feeding on Sulpher Sponge
(Aplysina fistularis) |
Tylodina fungina
feeding on Sulpher Sponge
(Aplysina fistularis) | 
happy tech divers | 
sea urchins
at Webster Point,
Santa Barbara Island,
California | 
divers with bags of urchins |
Santa Barbara Island : Dive 4 : Outside the Cavet
|
Spiny Brittle Star
(Ophiothrix spiculata) | 
a 14 cm long
Blackeye Goby
(Coryphopterus nicholsii) | 
California Golden Gorgonian
(Muricea californica) | |
