Redondo - June 11, 2006

My Dive Buddy, Tim, celebrated dive number 100 (congratulations!) on our first dive of the evening.  Only a few pictures from that one, as my camera batteries died on me.  Rookie mistake.  After a long surface interval, we headed back into the really poor vis (5-7-feet) for a night dive and spotted our usual octos.  The Blackbelly Eelpout was very abundant, along with numerous Pacific Snake Prickleback.  At the end, during our safety stop under the pilings, we got swarmed by a "krill-like" animal.  Very weird.  Then, on the way to shore from there, I shot some video of a Prickleback eating some of the "krill" for dinner.  Not the greatest video...but it shows the swarm, and the fish at the buffet.

Click on the pictures below to see the larger image.  (Link to my dive site review for Redondo.)

Dive 1

Dive 2

Video of a Pacific Snake Prickleback Having Dinner  (3.5 MB)