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Sea Divers trip to
Farnsworth Bank,
and the back side of Santa Catalina Island
aboard the Great Escape
August 14, 2005

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Topside Photos
Gene Greenberg & Captain Tim Burke	Victoria Francis & Frank Huntly	Marcel & Tammy Lafremboise	John Forbes
Divemaster James	Eric Penn & Monique LeMay	The West End of Santa Catalina Island	Richard Laub & Suzanne Cervellone
Dive 1: Farnsworth Bank
Bat Star (Asterina miniata) on California Hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus)	red spotted star	red spotted star	red spotted star
Suzanne Cervellone	California Scorpionfish (Scorpaena guttata)	Pink Abalone (Haliotis corrugata)	Monique LeMay
Dive 2: Farnsworth Bank
Farnsworh Bank	red spotted star	abandoned lobster trap	unknown metal junk
Farnsworh Bank	red spotted star.jpg	Colonial Cup Coral (Coenocyathus bowersi) & California Hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus)	John Forbes
	Fletcher Forbes	Island Kelpfish (Alloclinus holderi) on California Hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus)
Dive 3: Whale Rock
Kathryn Cody	notice the inverted Green Abalone (Haliotis fulgens)	Kathryn Cody	California Sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher) & Pile Surfperch (Damalichthys vacca)
Giant Spined Star (Pisaster giganteus)	Bat Star (Asterina mimiata) on a California Golden Gorgonian (Muricea californica)	Kelp Rockfish (Sebastes atrovirens)	Kelp Rockfish (Sebastes atrovirens)
mixed gorgonians	Brown Rockfish (a.k.a. Bolinas) (Sebastes auriculatus)	Brown Rockfish (a.k.a. Bolinas) (Sebastes auriculatus)	a Sea Diver
Monique LeMay	Eric Penn	Victoria Francis	Frank Huntly & Victoria Francis
	Victoria Francis	Norris's Topsnail (Norrisia norrisi)
Dive 4: Just East of Eagle Rock
P8141095Fglr.jpg	Fluted Bryozoan (Hippodiplosoa insculpta) on a Red Gorgonian (Lophogorgia chilensis)	Yellow Zoanthid (Parazoanthus lucificum)	Fluted Bryozoan (Hippodiplosoa insculpta)
mixed gorgonians	abandoned lobster trap	mixed gorgonians	Opaleye (Girella nigricans)
Yellow Zoanthid (Parazoanthus lucificum)	California Golden Gorgonian (Muricea californica)	Yellow Zoanthid (Parazoanthus lucificum)	Yellow Zoanthid (Parazoanthus lucificum)
Yellow Zoanthid (Parazoanthus lucificum)	California Golden Gorgonian (Muricea californica)	mixed gorgonians	mixed gorgonians
Yellow Zoanthid (Parazoanthus lucificum)	Yellow Zoanthid (Parazoanthus lucificum)	Yellow Zoanthid (Parazoanthus lucificum)	Giant Kelpfish (Heterostichus rostratus)