2. Diving

Knuckle Sandwich

REEF surveyors headed down Hood Canal to the south end, to resurvey a site that's been done two previous years. This year we found more invasive Ciona savignyi (an invasive tunicate) than ever. Our second dive on The Knuckle had much more biodiversity and life, and no invasive tunicates.
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Tom overlooks our big find. Well, actually Tom found it! We were busy looking at a Golf Ball Crab when he looked up on the reef about 2 feet, and found this gigantic beauty sitting out in the open.
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Tom overlooks our big find. Well, actually Tom found it! We were busy looking at a Golf Ball Crab when he looked up on the reef about 2 feet, and found this gigantic beauty sitting out in the open.

  • Capt. Don Coleman, Greg Jensen, Todd Cliff, Tom Nicodemus, Janna Nichols, Dave Rintoul and Pam Jensen.
  • Greg Jensen (did he run out of underwater survey paper?)
  • Tom overlooks our big find. Well, actually Tom found it! We were busy looking at a Golf Ball Crab when he looked up on the reef about 2 feet, and found this gigantic beauty sitting out in the open.
  • Tom and the GPO
  • Wolf eel
  • Giant Pacific Octopus
  • Todd in the emerald green water waiting for Dave.
  • Delicate colonies of Cloud Sponge down at 90 feet
  • Dave hops off the boat into the inviting 47 degree water.
  • Monstrous ling cod on a bed of Zoanthids
  • Cute little Stubby squid under its eggs. (this was at our first dive site near Dewatto Bay)
  • Tom glides over a field of Plumose anemones
  • Pam Jensen
  • Wolf eel
  • Todd, Tom and Dave
  • Little juvenile Quillback Rockfish hides inside the Cloud Sponge colony
  • We saw two dead octopus at the Knuckle.
  • Tom and the Plumose again.
  • Large quantities of invasive Ciona savignyi at the Dewatto Wall. Squat Lobsters climb through clusters of the tunicates.
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