June 29, 2015

Dwarf Teardrop Crab Phil Garner

6/28/2015
Rancho Palos Verdes
Little Reef
50 feet

A male Dwarf Teardrop Crab
(red claws = male)
Pelia tumida

Nikon D700
f/14, 1/150

Retiring Southerner Mike Ayres

6/28/2015
Mission Bay
Mission Point Park
6 feet

Retiring Southerner
Pilumnus spinohirsutus

Canon S110
f/5.6, 1/125, ISO 100

probably a Brown Rock Crab Bill Arquette

6/26/2015
La Jolla Shores
Crap Patch
50–60 feet

Probably a Yellow Crab
Metacarcinus anthonyi

Sea & Sea DX-2G
Single Sea & Sea YS-10 strobe

Tuna Crab Brian Herold

6/22/2015
La Jolla
Marine Room
50 feet

A grizzled one-eyed, one-clawed veteran of the 2015 Tuna Crab Invasion
Pleuroncodes planipes

Olympus TG-2
Sola 800

Octopus eating a Brown Rock Crab Bob Austin

6/23/2015
La Jolla Shores
South Walls
60–65 feet

An Ocoptus
Octopus sp.

eating a Brown Rock Crab
Romaleon antennarius

Canon Powershot G16
Internal flash with diffuser
f/1.8, 1/250, ISO 200

Octopus David R. Andrew

6/23/2015
La Jolla Shores
North of Vallecitos Point
65 feet

Red Ocoptus
Octopus rubescens

Nikon D7000
Dual Ikelite DS160 strobes
60mm lens with Kenko 1.4 teleconverter
f/16, 1/200, ISO 250

California Scorpionfish Brenda Bridgett

6/28/2015
La Jolla
Marine Room

California Scorpionfish
Scorpaena guttata

Casio Exilim Z1080
Internal flash

Garibaldi Scott McGee

6/27/2015
Laguna Beach
Shaw's Cove
20 feet

Juvenile Garibaldi
Hypsypops rubicundus

Nikon D800
Ikelite housing
Dual DS-161 strobes
60mm macro lens
f/11, 1/320, ISO 125

Sarcastic Fringehead and C-O Sole Vanessa Homyak

6/27/2015
La Jolla Shores
113 feet

Sarcastic Fringehead
Neoclinus blanchardi

next to a C-O Sole
Pleuronichthys coenosus

Go Pro 4
PolarPro Macro Filter

Crevice Kelpfish Heather Lippert

6/28/2015
La Jolla Cove
50 feet

Crevice Kelpfish
Gibbonsia montereyensis

Nikon S1
Fishlight V25

Leopard Sharks Roger Uzun

6/22/2015
La Jolla
Marine Room
6 feet

Leopard Sharks
Triakis semifasciata

GoPro Hero 4 Black
Ambient light

Loggerhead Turtle Jerry Allen

6/25/2015
5 miles west of Mission Beach

Loggerhead Turtle
Caretta caretta

Nikon D700
Sealux housing
Ambient light
17–35mm lens

Phidiana hiltoni and Hermissenda Nirupam Nigam

6/27/2015
San Miguel Island

Hilton's Aeolid
Phidiana hiltoni

Horned Aeolid
Hermissenda crassicornis

Olympus E-PM1
Single Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobe
Reefnet fiberoptic snoot
14-42mm lens with +7 Dyron diopter

San Diego Dorid John H. Moore

6/27/2015
Scripps Canyon

San Diego Dorid
Diaulula sandiegensis

Nikon D200
Sea & Sea housing
Dual Sea & Sea YS-110 strobes
Nikon 60mm lens
f/16, 1/200, ISO 400

Spalding's Dorid Prof. Charles Tu

6/27/2015
Scripps Canyon
95 feet

Spalding's Dorid
Doriopsilla spaldingi

Sony RX100
video light

Acanthodoris rhodoceras Mark Pidcoe

6/22/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point

Red-tipped Dorid
Acanthodoris rhodoceras

Olympus E-PM1
3 Intova ISS4000 strobes

Acanthodoris lutea Herb Gruenhagen

6/28/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
65 feet

Yellow-horned Dorid
Acanthodoris lutea

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal strobe

Cadlina modesta Kevin Lee

6/27/2015
Palos Verdes
Garden Spot

Modest Cadlina
Cadlina modesta

Nikon D800
Dual YS-D1 strobes

Phidiana hiltoni Gene Shabinaw

6/28/2015
San Miguel Island

Hilton's Aeolid
Phidiana hiltoni

Canon 7D
60mm lens with Subsee +5 diopter

An Isopod Merry Passage

6/27/2015
Palos Verdes
Garden Spot
50 feet

The kelp isopod
Pentidotea resecata

Nikon D700
Dual Ikelite DS-161 strobes
Nikon 105mm lens with +5 diopter
f/20, 1/250, ISO 200

Ryan Mable's 2000th dive Juliet Miyagishima

6/28/2015
Oahu, Hawaii
Haleiwa Firehouse
55 feet

Ryan Mable celebrates dive 2,000!

GoPro Hero 3+
Ambient light with red filter