Dock Dive Day

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Merry found a Coryphella cooperi during a dock dive yesterday. Neither of us had seen one before, so I was excited to add it to my collection. I made a two-hour-plus dive this morning hoping to get a decent photo of one. Before I reached the silty bottom at sixteen feet I spotted a couple of subjects in the green algae. I began photographing the larger of the two, thinking to myself that it looked an awful lot like Apata pricei. I found six in total. When I uploaded my camera I found that five of them were indeed pricei. The smallest one (that I didn't get a good photo of) was cooperi. I'll have to get silty again.

Visibility was a nice ten to twelve feet, even at low tide. I found several subjects but came away feeling a little dejected for not accomplishing my goal.

Apata pricei

Coryphella cooperi and Apata pricei

Aegires albopunctatus

Antiopella barbarensis

Praestheceraeus bellostriatus

Phoronis ijimai

Geitodoris heath

 

[Ghost95]

I love dock diving. There is so much to see and find that gets overlooked because people think they have to travel miles to see something cool.

I've been diving since '89 in Florida and had never seen a spot fin jawfish. I didn't even know they existed until one day I made a dock dive and saw not one but three. Never would have seen them if I went to the normal spots that everyone goes to. My profile pic is the first one I saw.

Keep the doc dive reports coming. I enjoy them and the stunning pictures that go with them.