Three Tree North - February 2nd, 2007 - Night Dive

Well, this dive is a story of the good, the bad, and the ugly.  The good:  We saw a pacific spiny lumpsucker!  Woohoo!  Our first time seeing this fish...a rarity in Puget Sound.  Thanks to my dive buddy Tim for making the spot and flagging me over to take a look.  And the bad and ugly:  My camera flooded!  Ouch!  But...the camera wasn't too damaged...  This was a fantastic dive, though, as we finally found the boat down to the south.  It had a huge mass of ling cod eggs on it.  Very cool stuff!  And there was a big ling there, along with a good size male kelp greenling.  This was just a great dive.  The last picture shows water drops inside my camera housing.  Not good.  And...there's a video of the lumpsucker swimming.  It's pretty big, but interesting also.  Oh yeah...I also got pictures of an Oregon Triton.

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

Click here for VIDEO of the spiny lumpsucker swimming along the bottom.  (It's quite large...so be patient with the download.)