Schmutz

I woke up early to get my slug list together.  I’m not sure if I have any new ones on top of Pirjo.

We left at 7am for Ligpo.  The dive was ok.  I’m not sure why we went that far.  Then the second dive was AWFUL.  I called it Schmutz.  Seriously, so bad.  We saw NOTHING.

Then they served us lunch in little bento boxes on the boat.  I couldn’t even finish mine and gave the rest to the boat crew.

I took my iPhone on the boat, so here are some pictures of what it is like:

We also filmed a little video to submit to Kelly Clarkson because Terry’s Sharpies won’t write anymore.

I found out that Terry has two kids and one grandson who is three.  He named Chromodoris joshi after his son and Chromodoris heatherae after his daughter.  His wife has a whole genus named after her called Bonisa described in 1981.

Then I asked about the process for extracting nudibranch radula and looking at it under a microscope.  I wanted to hear about the process and the labs.  He invited me out to San Franciso to see it sometime at the California Academy of Sciences.  That would be SO COOL.  I definitely want to.  He said that he just needs a week’s notice.

Crap.  I lost a whole bunch of edits I did on my Dive Log Excel file.  I think it was because the WiFi was down and I was working locally… but then it couldn’t sync up.  Argh.  I was able to recover most of the data pretty quickly.

I arranged for a night dive tonight with Glenn but then Mike said no, all the guys were going home.  WTF?  Nobody communicated the fact that on a special three tank trip there is no night dive.  C’mon.  Glenn and his boat crew DID stay and we DID have a night dive.  Yay!  One other boat went out for a night dive as well, so I didn’t feel too bad about it.

I figured out that one of my batteries for the focus light/strobes is dead.  It is just no longer working.  I have to buy at least one more new one.  I wonder if Backscatter would do anything to help me with it since I haven’t even had it one year and may be under warranty.

Slug List

153 - Reticulidia halgerda

154 - Phyllidiopsis shireenae

155 - Gymnodoris sp. 23

156 - Hypselodoris sp.

157 - Sagaminopteron nigropunctatum

158 - Trapania sp. 2

159 - Janolus sp. 7

160 - Samla riwo

161 - Goniobranchus aureopurpureus

162 - Goniobranchus preciosus

163 - Marionia sp. 5

I must be getting tired.  A lot of these pictures aren't great.