Nudibranchs on the Onondaga (4-1-07)

[RIOceanographer]

A horde of seven of us in two boats did the wreck of the Onondaga off of Watch Hill today. Great conditions, dead calm, good vis with water temps of about 39 degrees F. There were a lot of nudibranchs on the wreck today. I am sure Ed will post his usual photo report from the dive, but here is a close up shot of one that I took with my much less impressive cheapo camera :

 

[ScubaSarus]

Really nice. How was the vis and water temps. I may be attempting a dive next weekend. One of my favorite wreck dives. Rumor has it 25 yards off the bow there is an area were silk and gold can be mined.

 

[Jcsgt]

Love the pic, thanks for sharing.

 

[paulthenurse]

Rumor has it 25 yards off the bow there is an area were silk and gold can be mined.

I heard it was gold, frankensence and mirh. (BTW, WTH is mirh?)
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[ThatsSomeBadHatHarry]

Nice, Chris. You got some good color on that.

Water warming up yet?

 

[Tampico_ED]

Here is my share, Please give some slack. This was the first time I took this setup (Nikon D100, anyway not too appropiate for wide-angle. Could have used a bigger zoom lens !

Any way thanks the band for taking me !

 

[alcina]

Beautiful nudibranch!

39F just seems crazy to me LOL

 

[RIOceanographer]

Water warming up yet?

Yep! 2 whole degrees since last weekend!

Anyway... you are really missing out since you went to Hawaii! The water is so clear that I was able to shoot this picture of a blimp flying over the site from the bottom 50 ft down (I swear.. no photoshop effects were used!)

 

[RIOceanographer]

Rumor has it 25 yards off the bow there is an area were silk and gold can be mined.

Hmmmm.... silk from a 100+ year old wreck, I wonder what that would fetch?

 

[mstudley]

Nice shots guys. Who did you go with? I wish I had known you were going, I might have been able to make it out today...