Dive #462 - Madrona - Maze and Big Wall - 3 February 2021
First ling cod egg mass dive of the year, and we found one pretty quickly in the Maze. Swam out to the Big Wall, where we found the two GPO Buds in their crack, close to one another. A couple of healthy looking sunflower stars. Sailfin sculpin. I was photographing a yellow-eye rockfish when I saw J's light - a big GPO was out hunting. Same Y-E rockfish I was trying to photograph earlier in the season with S? Same octopus? We watched it hunt for awhile - it didn't care we were there - and then went into deco. Came up to a cod and a Pacific Staghorn Sculpin. Found some late-season kelp greenling eggs with good development. Red Irish Lord. C-O Sole. Aleutian Moonsnail. Pacific Batwing Seaslug that was swimming and settled on the sand. Buffalo Sculpin. English Sole.
Near the end of the dive, in the shallows, we found a big lingcod in a cloud of reproductive fluids. I think it was a female who'd just layed eggs, based on her concave belly. J thought it was a male fertilizing. There was a sneaker male nearby. The big lingcod just layed on top of the egg mass, looking tired. Pretty neat to witness.
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Nemertinos (Filo Nemertea)Observador
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Polvo-Gigante-Do-Pacífico (Enteroctopus dofleini)Observador
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Lorcha-Do-Kelp (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Observador
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Lineus spatiosusObservador
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Henricia leviusculaObservador
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Pagurus armatusObservador
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Pteraster tesselatusObservador
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Polvo-Gigante-Do-Pacífico (Enteroctopus dofleini)Observador
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Limão-Do-Mar-Comum (Peltodoris nobilis)Observador
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Anêmona-de-Base-Pintada (Urticina grebelnyi)Observador
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Cantarilho-Doce (Sebastes ruberrimus)Observador
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Cantarilho-Doce (Sebastes ruberrimus)Observador
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Epizoanthus scotinusObservador
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Lorcha-Do-Kelp (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Observador
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Cantarilho-Doce (Sebastes ruberrimus)Observador
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Polvo-Gigante-Do-Pacífico (Enteroctopus dofleini)Observador
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Bacalhau-Do-Pacífico (Gadus macrocephalus)Observador
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Leptocottus armatusObservador
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Ouriço-Do-Mar-Ártico (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis)Observador
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Lorcha-Do-Kelp (Hexagrammos decagrammus)Observador
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Cantarilho-Cobre (Sebastes caurinus)Observador
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Vieja-Marcada (Phanerodon vacca)Observador
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Enophrys bisonObservador
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Parophrys vetulusObservador
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Starry Flounder?
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Lorcha-Azul (Ophiodon elongatus)Observador
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Pepino-Do-Mar-Sol (Cucumaria miniata)Observador
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Pisaster brevispinusObservador
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Caranguejo-Do-Kelp-Setentrional (Pugettia producta)Observador
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Pandalus platycerosObservador
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Pteraster tesselatusObservador
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Neverita lewisiiObservador
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