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Sea Divers trip to
Santa Catalina Island
aboard the Great Escape
June 18, 2005

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Dive 1: Long Point
Tube-Dwelling Anemones Pachycerianthus fimbriatus	Fragile Rainbow Star Astrometis sertulifera	Pile Surfperch Damalichthys vacca	Kathy Kalohi
Sheep Crab (Loxorhynchus grandis)	Sheep Crab (Loxorhynchus grandis) California Halibut (Paralichthys californicus) swimming away	Timothy B. Fitzhugh	Helen Johnson
Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)	Salema Xenistius californiensis	Salema (Xenistius californiensis) & Kathryn Cody	Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus
Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus	Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus	Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus	a mixed school of Pacific Jack Mackerel (Trachurus symmetricus) and Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax caerulea)
Pacific Sardine Sardinops sagax caerulea	Pacific Sardine Sardinops sagax caerulea	Pacific Sardine Sardinops sagax caerulea	Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus
Dive 2: East End of the Old Rock Quary
Kelp Rockfish Sebastes atrovirens	Bluebanded Goby Lythrypnus dalli	Bluebanded Goby Lythrypnus dalli	Kelp Rockfish Sebastes atrovirens
Kelp Surfperch Brachyistius frenatus	Kelp Surfperch Brachyistius frenatus	Bluebanded Goby Lythrypnus dalli	Kelp Rockfish Sebastes atrovirens
Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus	Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus	Kathryn Cody	Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus
Kathryn Cody	Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)	Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus	Sea cauliflower (Leathesia difformis) & Kelp Bass (Paralabrax clathratus)
Kelp Bass (aka Calico Bass) Paralabrax clathratus	Pacific Sardine Sardinops sagax caerulea	Pacific Sardine Sardinops sagax caerulea	Elaine Jobin
Pacific Sardine Sardinops sagax caerulea	Elaine Jobin	Conan Teng	Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus) and a California Golden Gorgonian (Muricea californica)
Helen Johnson	Jacksmelt Atherinopsis californiensis	Egg-yolk Jelly Fried Egg Jellyfish Phacellophora camtschatica
Dive 4: Bird Rock
Octocoral rudyi Alcyonium rudyi	Fragile Star Linckia columbiae	Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)	Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)
Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)	Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)	Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)	Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)
Garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)	Octocoral rudyi Alcyonium rudyi	Colonial Cup Coral Coenocyathus bowersi	Rock Scallop Crassedoma giganteum notice the eyes!
	Brown Cup Coral Paracyathus stearnsi	Wart-Neck Piddock Chaceia ovoidea