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Spongehenge, the 5-mile sewer pipe and Kevin's Reef


Outer Bamnks diving on the Great Escape Southern California Live-Aboard Dive Boat


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Posted by Merry on August 07, 2021 at 18:17:24:

It had been 6 months since we dove Hermosa Artificial Reef to take ID shots for Milton Love's study. Plus we needed a chance to look for Mike Couffer's fish, GSB462. Visibility is so iffy at Hermosa at certain times of the year, that using a drop camera to assess the vis has saved us more than one bounced dive.

ID shots have to be straight on the entire side of the fish for the computer program to map the spot pattern. So the thrill of the photo is getting good light on the spots. Giant sea bass are not always in the spotted state; they can rapidly change from spotted to completely black or completely silver, depending...



Gray moon sponge at Spongehenge


San Pedro auger, Neoterebra pedroana


Flatworm, Prostheceraeus bellostriatus


Sewer outfall pipes are among my favorite places to turn over rocks
Polychaete worm


Limpet


Limacia mcdonaldi


Calliostoma tricolor



Juvenile treefish


Okenia rosacea


Okenia rosacea butt shot - they have pretty gills but we forget to shoot them



Gopher rockfish #1


Gopher rockfish #2


Pyrosomes littered the sea floor and were prey to bat stars






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