Apparently they aren't seen very often in the Hood Canal. Some friends and I were on a trip with Don and Diane at Pacific Adventure. If you haven't been out with them, you are really missing out. Anyway, on our first dive at about 80 ft I saw the shark. We ended up following it down to about 122 ft before heading back up. It got pretty dark at the bottom and there was a bunch of krill in the water, so the photo is only offered as proof of the sighting. Don has over 1000 dives in the Hood Canal and has yet to see a 6 gill shark there. He was quite upset with himself for not making the first dive with us when we got back on the boat and told him what we saw. I also saw what was probably the largest ling cod I've ever seen. That fish was probably as large as the shark. Both were in the 6 ft. to 7 ft. range. It was almost anticlimactic when I found the female wolf eel partially out of her den.
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Female Wolf Eel
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Female Wolf Eel
The rest of the photos are in this Gallery