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April 2020

California Sheephead – Semicossyphus pulcher

2020-04-17T14:03:05+00:00

The Sheephead is a wrasse considered a threatened (vulnerable) species and is being considered for the endangered species list.  It is one of the top predators of mollusks, sea urchins, and various crustaceans.   One dive I witnessed a Sheephead knock a Abalone off its rock and begin consuming it.  These wrasse inhabit the kelp forests [...]

California Sheephead – Semicossyphus pulcher 2020-04-17T14:03:05+00:00

California Brown Pelicans

2020-04-03T12:23:07+00:00

Brown Pelican - Pelicans occidentalis On Scuba San Diego’s “Snorkel Adventure” ( www.snorkeladventure.com) the Brown Pelican is often doing a low-at-the- surface flyby of us on our way to the La Jolla Sea Caves.  Was Listed as an endangered species June 2, 1970 and it was delisted on November 17, 2009.  Interestingly the symbol of the [...]

California Brown Pelicans 2020-04-03T12:23:07+00:00