Observation Log: Portland, UK


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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Chesil Beach Cove, 07/18/2013

Observer Name: Nina Hukkanen
Observation Start Time: 15:00
Observation End Time: 16:00
Weather Conditions: Sunny, calm
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 8m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): High (6-10m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: none
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): low
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 15C
Notable Fauna: Spider crabs, jelly fish, John Dory, cuttle fish

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Chesil Beach Cove, 07/17/2013

Observer Name: Nina Hukkanen
Observation Start Time: 16:10
Observation End Time: 17:00
Weather Conditions: Sunny, calm
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 8m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): High (6-10m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: none
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): low
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 15C
Notable Fauna: Spider crabs, jelly fish, John Dory, sea hares (small)

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Chesil Beach Cove, 07/11/2013

Observer Name: Nina Hukkanen
Observation Start Time: 15:20
Observation End Time: 16:30
Weather Conditions: Sunny, calm
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 10m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): High (6-10m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: none
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): low
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 14C
Notable Fauna: Spider crabs, jelly fish, Dog Fish, cuttle fish

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Chesil Beach Cove, 07/10/2013

Observer Name: Nina Hukkanen
Observation Start Time: 14:40
Observation End Time: 15:30
Weather Conditions: Sunny, calm
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 7m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): High (6-10m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: none
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): low
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 14C
Notable Fauna: Spider crabs, jelly fish, John Dory

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Countess of Erne, 08/21/2012

Observer Name: Matt Knifton
Observation Start Time: 19.30
Observation End Time: 20.15
Weather Conditions: Sunny, large southerly swell
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet):
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): Medium (3-6m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: S-N
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): Irrelevant
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 18C
Notable Flora:
Notable Fauna: Light bulb sea squirt, phallusia mammillata, ascidia virginea, dead mans fingers, boring sponge, tompot blennies, gurnard, velvet swimming crabs, spiny spider crab, common limpet, king scallop, candy stripe flatworm, beadlet anemones, polycera quadrillineata, nudibranch, pollock
Other Observer Comments:Good visibility considering topside conditions. Wreck unchanged since the last time I dived it. Mooring to the front end of the wreck has been removed.

Countess of Erne, 08/21/2012

Observer Name:  Gerry and Angel White
Observation Start Time: 19.26
Observation End Time: 20.17
Weather Conditions: Low light, strong winds
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 12.5m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): Low (0-3m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: S-N
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): N
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 18C
Notable Flora:
Notable Fauna: 4 sea scorpions, 1 pipefish, pollock, black faced blennies, tompot blennies, wrasse, spider crabs, velvet swimmer crabs, violet sea slugs, candy striped flatworm, devonshire cup corals, fried egg anemones, pink sea fans, light bulb sea squirts, dead man's fingers.
Other Observer Comments: (Gerry:) It has been a while since I dived the Countess but there did seem to be a few areas of what looked like bright new rust areas, maybe some areas are coming apart? Very very hard surface swim back to the boat, won't be in any hurry to repeat it!!

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Chesil Beach Cove, 08/12/2012

Observer Name: Gerry and Angel White
Observation Start Time: 11.36
Observation End Time: 12.44
Weather Conditions: Sunny and light offshore breeze
Depth of Observations (indicate meters or feet): 15m
Water Visibility (high, medium, low): Medium (3-6m)
Water Turbidity (high, medium, low): Medium
Water Current Direction: Non
Water Current Speed (high, medium, low): Non
Water Temperature (indicate C or F): 17C
Notable Flora:
Notable Fauna:2 lobsters, 2 cuttlefish, grey mullet, 2 pipefish, 3 nudis, large shoals of sand eels, lots of baby bib, pollock, rock cook, bream, wrasse including one large wrasse, spider, edible and velvet swimmer crabs, sea squirts.
Other Observer Comments: