Zebra Mussel Monitoring Program

Photo Gallery

SCUBA Dive at Lake Texoma

SCUBA dives are done at selected reservoirs to visually inspect submerged structures for zebra mussels.

Two scuba divers at the rocky lake shore, examining their tanks and breathing equipment

Preparing for the Lake Texoma dive

 Two scuba divers, standing in the water along the rocky lake edge, putting on their dive masks

Entering the water

 Two scuba divers, in the water a few feet from the rocky lake edge, beginning to swim

Starting the Lake Texoma dive

 Two scuba divers, swimming across the surface of the water towards a large concrete structure in the lake.

Swimming towards the inspection site

 Two scuba divers, heads above water mid-photo, dwarfed by the concrete tower they will be inspecting

Reaching the inspection target

 Scuba divers heads barely visible above the lake surface, under a large concrete structure

Under the tower

 Two scuba divers, head and shoulders above the water, with the lake shore visible in the bottom corner of the image

Finishing the dive

 Two scuba divers stepping out of the water onto a rocky lake shore

Climbing out

 Two divers in full scuba gear, standing and facing the camera. Lake and shoreline behind them.

Lake Texoma between dives

Zebra Mussels

Juvenile zebra mussels attach to available substrates.

Close up of zebra mussels attached to a buoy and to each other. The buoy is barely visible. A thin band of water is visible behind the buoy.

Zebra mussels on a buoy

 close up of zebra mussels attached to a buoy.

Buoy at Ray Roberts

 Pointing to a zebra mussel attached to the underside of a bridge

Zebra mussel under a bridge

 Zebra mussel attached to a rock above the creek surface

Zebra mussel on rock

 Several feet of heavy chain laid out in a boat trailer. The section of chain which had been underwater is fully encrusted with zebra mussels.

Zebra mussels on chains

 Lower half of the photo dominated by a close up a tree limb covered with zebra mussels

Close up of zebra mussels on a tree branch