A Busy Day of Diving

It was a busy day of diving. In the morning I met up with Mike at the shore and did a dive to measure the distance between two sites of baby giant sea bass sighting. Here is the report from Mike.

Mike is recording our measurement between two sighting sites.
Mike is recording our measurement between two sighting sites.

Several people have been photographing the same individual baby Giant Sea Bass for over a month, now, off La Jolla Shores. The pattern of black spots and white patches of young-of-the-year Giant Sea Bass are unique to each individual fish, a lot like fingerprints are on people; I proved that last year in a paper that I published in the Journal of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. This year, a friend photographed a baby GSB off La Jolla Shores, and photographed the same fish again over a month later. Others have also found and photographed this same fish; they sent me photos of both sides of the fish, and filled out my sighting form. This fish has now been found and photographed on four different nights, the last being two nights ago. That fish MAY have been seen on a FIFTH night… I am waiting for that person to send photos to see if it is the same baby GSB. If you find and photograph a baby Giant Sea Bass off La Jolla Shores, at a minimum, please write down the depth, and where you found the fish at La Jolla Shores using the most specific underwater landmarks as possible. If you can send me shots of both sides of the fish, with the fish as flat as possible, I’d like to see if the spot pattern matches the fish that I have been following!

Now a dive report: I made two dives today (Saturday)at La Jolla Shores. Water temperature was 54 degrees at a max depth of 54 feet. Visibility early in the morning was 25 feet, but later in the morning, it could be as bad as 15 feet in spots; visibility was patchy. Waves were ankle-slappers. I saw nothing out of the ordinary, except for areas of clear water, which this year could be considered out of the ordinary! The first dive was a search for baby GSBs, and one fish in particular, but I didn’t find any. The second dive was to measure the distance between the first two of the sighings of the GSB discussed above with a tape measure, so there wasn’t a lot of critter searching. If conditions hold, I’d go, if I was you… and please look for and get side photos of that baby GSB for my project! Thanks, Weiwei, for leading me to your sighting locations, today!

The condition at the shores was magnificent. I headed to the shores at night again hoping to see the squid run. It actually happened in my dive but I missed it.

With the hope to see it, I headed in again for the second dive at night. Well, didn’t see it.

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(Tritonia diomedea), the last nudibranch I was hoping to see at the shores.

A Diomedes Tritonia (Tritonia diomedea) at the shores.
A Diomedes Tritonia (Tritonia diomedea) at the shores.

The pictures are not the best since I was with my wide angle.

It was a pity to miss the squid run, but the encounter of Diomedes Tritonia gave me a lot of hope.

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