March 7, 2016

Two-spot Octopus Bob Austin

3/3/2016
La Jolla Shores
Main Wall
55 feet

Mating Two-spot Octopuses
Octopus bimaculatus or Octopus bimaculoides

Canon Powershot G16
f/2.2, 1/250, ISO 100

Humpback Whale Mike Couffer

3/5/2016
Nine Mile Bank

A dead Humpback Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae

This is the same one year old, 23-foot-long juvenile humpback that washed up on Silver Strand Beach in Coronado on March 8th.

Canon 7D MkII
Ambient light
Canon 8-15mm lens

Gray Whales Tiffany Poon

3/5/2016
Baja California Sur, Mexico
Laguna Ojo de Liebre

Gray Whales
Eschrichtius robustus

Canon EOS Rebel T3i
18-55mm lens

Ribboned Sweetlips Michele Hall

3/5/2016
Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Dampier Strait
Mike's Point
60 feet

Mostly Ribboned Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus polytaenia

Canon 7D mark ii
Nauticam housing
Ikelite DS160 strobe
10-17mm lens

Mangroves Howard Hall

3/6/2016
Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Mangroves
Unidentified

RED camera
Canon 8-15mm lens

Flabellina iodinea Sandy Dildine

3/2/2016
Laguna Beach
Diver's Cove
4 feet

Spanish Shawl laying eggs
Flabellina iodinea

Olympus TG-3

Southern Kelp Crab Heather Lippert

3/6/2016
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
60 feet

A very small Southern Kelp Crab
Taliepus nuttallii

Nikon S1
Single YS-03 strobe

Hermissenda Herb Gruenhagen

3/6/2016
La Jolla Shores
South Walls

Hermissenda crassicornis

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal flash

Pink Abalone Andrew Harmer

3/2/2016
Gaviota Coast
20 feet

Pink Abalone
Haliotis corrugata

Olympus TG-3
Ikelite housing
Internal flash

Cabezon Jonathan Lavan

3/4/2016
San Diego's Wreck Alley
Yukon
85 feet

Cabezon
Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Nikon D300
Subal housing
Dual Ikelite strobes
SOLA 800 focus light
60mm lens
f/10, 1/250, ISO 200

Hermissenda Mark Pidcoe

3/6/2016
La Jolla Shores
South Walls
60 feet

Hermissenda crassicornis

Olympus E-PM1
Dual Intova ISS4000 strobes
f/22, 1/160, ISO 200

Swimming Crab and Tuna Crab David R. Andrew

3/3/2016
La Jolla Shores
55 feet

A Swimming Crab
Portunus xantusii

eating a Tuna Crab
Pleuroncodes planipes

Nikon D7000
Dual Ikelite DS160 strobes
60mm lens
f/16, 1/125, ISO 250

Fantail Sole Roger Uzun

3/2/2016
La Jolla Shores
55 feet

Fantail Sole
Xystreurys liolepis

Canon XA30 Camcorder
Keldan Luna 4 Flux Lights