The Vancouver freediving community has been doing Lingcod Egg Mass Survey dives for the Vancouver Aquarium's project since 2001. This was our best year yet for participation, getting out for five survey dives during the egg laying season. Unfortunately for the lingcod, the counts this year were not so good. After a steady climb over the past several years, counts are suddenly back down to 200x levels.
Whytecliff Express
Greg and Stephanie about to do Whytecliff Express
Tom, Greg and Stephanie
Sunflower star
Sea Peach (a tunicate)
Looking back at snow-capped mountains
Burrowing Anemone
Greg with his underwater camera
Leather star
Ansell Place
Roberta surveying the wind damage at Ansell Place
Fallen trees at Ansell Place
How to get to the water?
Looking towards Horseshoe Bay
What a mess!
Feather star
An egg mass under the boulder
Sea cucumber
Egg mass with lingcod on guard
Crimson anemone
Porteau Cove
A rare site: an empty parking lot at Porteau Cove
Egg mass and lingcod at Porteau
Lingcod on patrol
Greg frozen after the dive
Egg mass at the end of the season
This clip is of a very aggressive lingcod that
owns the foredeck of the Granthall at Porteau Cove.
We never did see what it was protecting.
