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Ocean Safari trip to
San Nicolas Island & Santa Barbara Island
aboard the Great Escape
August 20-21, 2005

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Boarding the Night Before
divers preparing their gear	Thai Quach	A Ocean Safari diver	Crystal & Conan
divers watching the breifing	Gabriel Lu gives the trip briefing	Thai Quach & woman dver watching the breifing	Gabriel Lu gives the trip briefing
Top side at San Nic
Sunrise at Nic	the sand spit	a happy hunter with a nice Ocean Whitfish	a happy hunter
diver	divers & a healthy kelp bed	a happy diver	Thai Quach
healthy kelp bed	healthy kelp bed	Crystal	Conan Teng
San Nicolas Island : Dive 1
Leather Star (Dermasterias imbricata)	Orange Puffball Sponge (Tethya aurantia) & a White-spotted Rose Anemone (Urtinca lofotensis)	Black-and-Yellow Rockfish (Sebastes chrysomelas)	Black-and-Yellow Rockfish (Sebastes chrysomelas)
	Eric Faust
San Nicolas Island : Dive 2
Pacific Angel Shark (Squatina californica)	Pacific Angel Shark (Squatina californica)	Porter's Chromodorid (Mexichromis porterae)	Porter's Chromodorid (Mexichromis porterae)
Painted Urticna (Urticna crassicornis)	Hermissenda crassicornis	Painted Greenling (Hexagrammos superciliosus)	Rock Scallop (Crassedoma giganteum)
Leucetta losangelensis	Hermissenda crassicornis	White Spotted Porostome (Doriopsilla albopunctata)	Sunflower Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides)
San Nicolas Island : Dive 3 : The Wall
a school of pinheads Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)	Blacksmith (Chromis punctipimmis)	"the wall"	Blue Rockfish (Sebastes mystinus), Olive Rockfish (Sebastes serranoides), Blacksmith (Chromis punctipimmis), and a school of pinhead Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)
Spanish Shawls (Flabellina iodinea) on the wall	on "the wall"	3 mating White Spotted Porostomes (Doriopsilla albopunctata)	3 mating White Spotted Porostomes (Doriopsilla albopunctata)
Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)	Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)	Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)	Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)
Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)	Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)	Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)	Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax)
San Nicolas Island : Dive 4 : The Markers
Red Volcano Sponge (Acarnus erithacus)	Kelp Rockfish (Sebastes atrovirens)	Black-and-Yellow Rockfish (Sebastes chrysomelas)	three White-spotted Rose Anemones (Urtinca lofotensis), a Spanish Shawl (Flabelina iodinea), & some Orange Cup Corals (Balanophyllia elegans)
Stalked Tunicate (Styela montereyensis) & Fluted Bryozoan (Hippodiplosia insculpta)	juvenile Cabazon (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus)	juvenile Cabazon (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus)	Black-and-Yellow Rockfish (Sebastes chrysomelas)
Sunflower Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides)	a view of the kelp mat from below	Stalked Tunicate (Styela montereyensis) & Fluted Bryozoan (Hippodiplosia insculpta)	Giant Spined Stars (Pisaster giganteus)
Painted Greenling (Hexagrammos superciliosus) & White-spotted Rose Anemones (Urtinca lofotensis)	?? worm	Fluted Bryozoan (Hippodiplosia insculpta) & White-spotted Rose Anemones (Urtinca lofotensis)	Wart-Neck Piddock (Chaceia ovoidea)
diver with a canera	diver with a camera	Giant Spined Star (Pisaster giganteus)	California Sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher)
Top side at SBI
DM Luis Torres	diving is a glamour sport!	Dr. Evil	divers
Santa Barbara Island : Dive 1 : East Kelp
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Pregnant female Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Pregnant female Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Pregnant female Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)
Pregnant female Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Pregnant female Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Pregnant female Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Pregnant female Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)
Santa Barbara Island : Dive 2 : Hidden Reef
Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)
Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)
Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)
Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Steve & a Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Male Torpedo Ray (Torpedo californica)	Painted Urticna (Urticna crassicornis)
Spiny Brittle Star (Ophiothrix spiculata)	Spiny Brittle Star (Ophiothrix spiculata)	Spiny Brittle Star (Ophiothrix spiculata)	Spiny Brittle Star (Ophiothrix spiculata)
Giant Kelp (Macrocystis integrifolia)	Giant Kelp (Macrocystis integrifolia)	Giant Kelp (Macrocystis integrifolia)	Giant Kelp (Macrocystis integrifolia)
Santa Barbara Island : Dive 3 : Webster Point
Red Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus)	Opaleye (Girella nigricans)	Opaleye (Girella nigricans)	Black Surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni)
Pile Surfperch (Damalichthys vacca)	Black Surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni) and Pile Surfperch (Damalichthys vacca)	Black Surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni)	Pile Surfperch (Damalichthys vacca)
Black Surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni)	Black Surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni)	Opaleye (Girella nigricans)	Opaleye (Girella nigricans)
Black Surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni)	Black Surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni)	Tylodina fungina feeding on Sulpher Sponge (Aplysina fistularis)	Tylodina fungina feeding on Sulpher Sponge (Aplysina fistularis)
Tylodina fungina feeding on Sulpher Sponge (Aplysina fistularis)	happy tech divers	sea urchins at Webster Point, Santa Barbara Island, California	divers with bags of urchins
Santa Barbara Island : Dive 4 : Outside White Rock Cave
Spiny Brittle Star (Ophiothrix spiculata)	a 14 cm long Blackeye Goby (Coryphopterus nicholsii)	California Golden Gorgonian (Muricea californica)