Divebums: Photos of the Week #171

Photos of the Week #171

July 28, 2008

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	Allison Vitsky 7/26/2008 Catalina Island Photographer Peter Gallup and two Giant Sea Bass Stereolepis gigas
	Margaret Webb 7/26/2008 Palos Verdes Wreck of the Avalon 72 feet Photographer Scott Webb and a Lingcod Ophiodon elongatus Olympus E-330 Dual DS-125 strobes 7-14mm lens f/8, 1/30
	Steve Gardner 7/22/2008 Oahu, Hawaii Shark's Cove 20 feet Convict Tang Acanthurus triostegus Whitebar Surgeonfish Acanthrus leucopareius Olympus C5050z Ikelite housing No flash
	Scott McGee 7/26/2008 La Jolla Shores Main Point 45 feet Dirona picta Nikon D200 Ikelite housing DS125 strobe 105mm lens f/18, 1/200
	Todd Warshaw 7/26/2008 Big Sur Juvenile Moss Crab Loxorhynchus crispatus on a Giant Spined Star Pisaster giganteus Canon MarkII Dual Ikelite DS100 strobes 16-35mm lens
	Mike Bartick 7/27/2008 Anacapa Island Diver Scott Gietler and California Sheephead Semicossyphus pulcher Senorita Oxyjulis californica Nikon D300 Tokina 10-17 lens
	Kevin Lee 7/26/2008 Catalina Island Rainbow Scorpionfish Scorpaenodes xyris Nikon D200 Dual YS-110 strobes
	Gayle Van Leer 7/26/2008 Mission Bay Mission Point Bay Blenny Hypsoblennius gentilis Sony DSC-T30 Internal flash
	Roger Carlson 7/26/2008 San Nicolas Island Begg Rock 120 feet Very nice vis on Begg Rock Olympus C5050 Inon wide angle lens
	Julianne E. Steers 7/26/2008 Long Beach Oil Rig Giant Acorn Barnacle Balanus nubilus Club-tipped Anemones (Strawberry Anemones) Corynactis californica Canon Powershot Pro1 Sea-n-Sea YS90 Duo Auto
	Robert Johnson 7/27/2008 Baja California, Mexico Bahia de los Angeles Roboastra tigris Olympus C5050z
	Melin Isa 7/27/2008 Baja California, Mexico Bahia de los Angeles Tambja abdere Canon PowerShot a710
	Mark Pidcoe 7/26/2008 Hawaii South Kona Coast Driftwood Regal Slipper Lobster Arctides regalis Sony DSC-P150 Pixtreme PX21 Slave Strobe
	Brenda Bridgett 7/25/2008 La Jolla Shores Main Wall Chestnut Cowry Cypraea spadicea Sealife DC 600 Internal flash
	Steve Briggs 7/27/2008 La Jolla Shores Bluebanded Goby Lythrypnus dalli Olympus E-330 Dual DS125 strobes 50mm macro lens
	Dave Rudie 7/27/2008 Off the Imperial Beach Pier 30 feet Sea urchins eating drift kelp Red Sea Urchins Strongylocentrotus franciscanus Purple Sea Urchins Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Olympus SP-350 Internal flash Inon wide angle lens
	Chris Nelson 7/23/2008 British Columbia, Canada Nanoose Bay Tyee Beach Juvenile Sunflower Star Pycnopodia helianthoides Sea & Sea DX-1G
	Pete Hergesheimer 7/27/2008 La Jolla Shores Juvenile Horn Shark Heterdontus francisci Canon G9
	Terry Strait 7/26/2008 La Jolla Shores North Wall "This little octopus escaped the jaws of the fringehead twice. After that, he decided the safest place to be was on it's head." Octopus Octopus sp. Sarcastic Fringehead Neoclinus blanchardi Nikon D40x
	Mike Hallack 7/25/2008 La Jolla Shores Main Wall Sculpin Artedius sp. Fujifilm f40d
	Mick McMurray 7/26/2008 Point Loma Kelp 65 feeet Doris montereyensis and eggs Nikon D70 Sea & Sea Housing
	Tracy Clark 7/26/2008 Point Loma Kelp Doris montereyensis and eggs Nikon D70s 14mm Sigma lens
	Steve Murvine 7/26/2008 Point Loma Ancient Sea Cliffs Peltodoris nobilis Unlike the two Doris montereyensis above, here the black spots do not extend onto the tubercles (bumps) and the gills are white, not yellow. Canon G-9 Ikelite housing Ikelite DS-51 TTL strobe

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