Winning Entries

Fish

Best Wolfeel

Nick Brown

Best Flatfish

C-O Sole

Pete Naylor

Best Gunnel or Warbonnet

Mosshead Warbonnet

Pete Naylor

** Grand Prize winner

Best Greenling

Jeanne Luce

Best Sculpin

Longfin sculpin

Janna Nichols

Most uncommon fish

Blacktip Poacher

David Jennings

Best Other Fish

Red Irish Lord

Janna Nichols

Best Arthropod

Tucked Away: Coonstripe Shrimp

David Jennings

Best Anemone

Swimming Anemone

Nick Brown

Best Nudibranch

Giant Nudibranch

Nick Brown

Best Sea Star

Leather Star

David Jennings

Best Snail

Oregon Triton in Washington

Claude Nichols

 

Best Octopus

Giant Pacific Octopus

Nick Brown

Best Tunicate or Worm

Calcareous Tube Worm

Pete Naylor

Best Diver Conducting a Survey

Joe Gaydos conducting a REEF survey

Pete Naylor

   

Most Surveyed Species in One Shot

   

Crowded Spot

David Jennings

Padded sculpin at bottom,
Plumose Anemone (closed up, orange above the sculpin
Striped Seaperch (swimming out of the picture, upper right)
Pygmy Poacher (below and facing seaperch)
Coonstripe shrimp (directly above seaperch tail, facing camera)