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Posted by Max Bottomtime on August 18, 2010 at 17:29:53:

Merry and I hit Buchanan's Reef again today. The visibility was down to twenty-five feet, which is still spectacular for Marineland. I told Merry before the dive that I wanted to see how many different species of nudibranchs we could find on one dive. We ended with sixteen. We saw at least two more yesterday that we didn't find today.

Aegires albopunctatus


Aegires albopunctatus


Cadlina flavomaculata


Hermissenda crassicornis


Cuthona divae


Cuthona divae


Cuthona divae


Triopha catalinae


Cadlina limbaughorum


Cadlina luteomarginata


Acanthodoris hudsoni


Acanthodoris hudsoni


Diaulula sandiegensis


We can't identify this one yet.


It was sometimes difficult to get shots with the Blue, Vermillion, Rosie and Gopher rockfish constantly checking out the bolt snap on my camera.



I saw a large Lingcod resting on the net which covers a large section of reef, but I only managed one lousy shot.


I spotted a pelagic tunicate, Pyrosoma atlanticum floating between the rocks. It's only the second one I've found in nearly 1500 dives. Today was dive number 1499.


Pyrosoma atlanticum

After nearly an hour of nudi hunting we began our ascent. Just as we were near the ascent line I saw a large Fried Egg jelly, Phacellophora camtschatica. I spent the rest of the dive floating with it. I paid for it with a surface swim against the current.


Phacellophora camtschatica



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