Catalina 1-8-2010

My first three dives of 2010 were at Catalina on January 8. Ruth found this nice 3 foot Pacific Electric Ray on dive three. It was totally buried in the sand and it sure gave us a nice show.

Ruth was happy to see this blanket of Squid egg Baskets. We were pretty deep but the pictures and video were worth it.

Ruth found us this Acanthodoris rhodoceras Nudibrach. A first sighting for both of us. We were in about 80 feet of water headed back up from 94 feet. We were on the hunt for reported Squid egg baskets of which we found two at this site. The Nudibrach was about 3/4 of an inch across and was moving fairly quickly. Very interesting.

I found this anchor on dive two at about 60 feet. This was after Ruth and I had descended to 120 feet to see the blanket of Squid egg baskets. Unfortunately the anchor was just too heavy to bring up. I fully inflated my BCD but couldn't get off of the bottom. We will have to return with a lift bag and try to find it again.