Tag: swimming scallops

Swimming Scallops by the Thousands

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive
Post date 2008-07-07

By Nautilus Staff on July 7th, 2008 in Archive

We staged 2 mystery dives today while hiding from the weather and really lucked out with the second one when I anchored on top of a pinnacle that was absolutely loaded with swimming scallops (aka pink and spiny scallops). Stupendous sheer drop-off and I managed to place the anchor right on the edge of the precipice. These scallops are hilarious to watch.

Tags Alaska, coldwater diving, dixion entrance, prince of wales island, scallops, spiny scallops, swimming scallops, weather woes

Swimming Scallops and Grizzly Bears

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive
Post date 2008-06-23

By Nautilus Staff on June 23rd, 2008 in Archive

Best of all, we discovered thousands and thousands of swimming scallops on the bottom. Our scuba divers took great amusement in watching the pink and spiny scallops lift off the seabed and swim away as soon as the bivalve detected the presence of the divers.