Advanced scuba diving checkout dive at the Puget Sound, Washington.
This seems a tiger rockfish (sebastes nicrocinctus).
A sea sculpin is hiding against the floor.
The largest starfish we have seen.
Probably a lingcod fish.
Texture and fin details of the same lingcod.
My instructor is inspecting something...
... he invites me to take a closer look ...
he took off his glove, and he's touching a shy octopus.
Probably a quillback rockfish (Sebastes maliger).
Back from the first dive, around the pier poles.
Updating our logbooks with dive times, tank pressures and depth data.
Ready to dive again.
It's a wonderful sunny day.
We are now ready for the second dive, which takes place at Langley.
Our instructors watch our bubbles on the shore.
The water at Langley is quite dirty, and visibility is quite poor.
A wonderful specimen of sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides).
A striped sunstar (Solaster stimpsoni).
41-80 (of 190 found)
41-80 (of 190 found)