{"id":7427,"date":"2015-08-02T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2018-12-31T07:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T23:22:24","slug":"underwater-photos-of-southern-california-oil-rigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/underwater-photos-of-southern-california-oil-rigs.html","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Photos of Southern California Oil Rigs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I did some diving underneath three of Southern California’s offshore oil rigs<\/a>: oil rig Eureka<\/a>, oil rig Ellen<\/a> and oil rig Elly<\/a>. It was a lot of fun, and I hope to do it again soon. The amount of invertebrate life on the oil rig beams was impressive — copious amounts of large scallops, mussels, brittle stars, Corynactis and Metridium anemones, schools of fish moving through the beams and a few sea lions. Great stuff! Here are a few more underwater oil rig photos<\/a> from that day. Cheers and thanks for looking!<\/p>\n

\"Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

Oil Rig Ellen underwater structure covered in invertebrate life
\nImage ID: 31115<\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Brittle<\/a><\/p>\n

Brittle stars covering beams of Oil Rig Elly, underwater structure covered in invertebrate life
\nImage ID: 31136<\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

Oil Rig Eureka, Underwater Structure
\nImage ID: 31081<\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"California<\/a><\/p>\n

California sea lion at oil rig Eureka, underwater, among the pilings supporting the oil rig.
\nImage ID: 31086<\/a>
\nSpecies: California sea lion<\/a>, Zalophus californianus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Corynactis<\/a><\/p>\n

Corynactis anemones on Oil Rig Elly underwater structure
\nImage ID: 31130<\/a>
\nSpecies: Strawberry anemone<\/a>, Corynactis californica<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

Oil Rig Ellen underwater structure covered in invertebrate life
\nImage ID: 31102<\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

Oil Rig Ellen underwater structure covered in invertebrate life
\nImage ID: 31111<\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Corynactis<\/a><\/p>\n

Corynactis anemones on Oil Rig Elly underwater structure
\nImage ID: 31124<\/a>
\nSpecies: Strawberry anemone<\/a>, Corynactis californica<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

Oil Rig Eureka, 8.5 miles off Long Beach, California, lies in 720′ of water.
\nImage ID: 31091<\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

Oil Rig Elly underwater structure covered in invertebrate life
\nImage ID: 31132<\/a>
\nLocation: Long Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I did some diving underneath three of Southern California’s offshore oil rigs: oil rig Eureka, oil rig Ellen and oil rig Elly. It was a lot of fun, and I hope to do it again soon. The amount of invertebrate life on the oil rig beams was impressive —…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,123],"tags":[221,299,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-7427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"category-underwater-photography","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-oil-rig-diving","11":"tag-underwater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}