We got beat up by the swells today but had better then twenty feet visibility as a trade off. Unfortunately all the animals were hiding. Kevin, Merry and I made eighty minutes dives on the crane in our last attempt to find the undescribed Doto. We were shut out again. Even the eels were nowhere in sight.

Oxylebius pictus, Painted Greenling

Sebastes auriculatus, Brown rockfish

Sebastes atrovirens, Kelp Rockfish

Sebastes serriceps, Treefish, juvenile

Distaplia sp.

Pyura haustor, solitary sea squirt

Astrangia lajollaensis, Colonial cup coral

Crassedoma giganteum, Rock scallop

Astrometis sertulifera, Fragile Rainbow star

Panulirus interruptus, California Spiny Lobster

Lead for Captain Andy

At Golf Ball Reef we had a similar dive. We usually find hundreds of nudibranchs, octopus and juvenile rockfish but the place was a ghost town. I found less than a dozen nudis in over an hour. Meh.

Fauchea laciniata, Blue branching seaweed

Protula sp.

Acarnus erithacus, Red Volcano Sponge

Phimochirus californiensis, Hermit crab

Scorpaena guttata, California scorpionfish

Kelletia kelletii, Kellet's whelk

Doriopsilla albopunctata

Triopha catalinae

Berthella californica