Viz Reports Thread

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Mon May 02, 2011 9:40 pm

Mukilteo State Park, tonight -- disappointing viz, maybe 10 to 15 feet with a lot of particulates.

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Thu May 05, 2011 10:09 pm

Cove 2 tonight was pretty horrible. Below 60 feet, it wasn't too bad -- 10 to 15; from 60 up, it was "hit your head on the jackstraw piling before you saw it". I almost thumbed us to the surface from 35 feet, because I was down to 12" above the bottom in order to see it. Yuck!

Paulicarp · Post by **Paulicarp** » Thu May 05, 2011 11:04 pm

Mukilteo T-dock was pretty good tonight. Below 60fsw the vis was as good as 30 feet, but variable.

H20doctor · Post by **H20doctor** » Thu May 05, 2011 11:47 pm

3 tree north .. Crap . The 50 feet has gone

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » Fri May 06, 2011 10:46 am

Ditto LCF Cove 2 last night, vis was horrible. 1st dive there was a Harbor Seal swimming around, over, past, by, everything but into us as he was feasting on fish. It was kinda cool at first but got to be a PITA having to slam the brakes on repeatedly to avoid a collision with him. We didn't do a header into the jackstraw but darn near ran over the folks who were diving doubles, sorry!

Saw more life on 2nd dive, big school of Tubesnouts, Rat Fish, Stubby Squid, Longfin Sculpin, a small Red Octo, lots of shrimp and no Harbor Seal.

Thanks for the corrections and now I KNOW that I shouldn't have missed Janna's classes!

gutholmj · Post by **gutholmj** » Fri May 06, 2011 10:51 am

It's so funny how 15-20' can be called crap in one frame of mind and fantastic in another. Wait until it's less that 6' again and you'll be pining for the days of 15-20.

H20doctor wrote:3 tree north .. Crap . The 50 feet has gone

WylerBear · Post by **WylerBear** » Fri May 06, 2011 10:58 am

Lonestar wrote:
Saw more life on 2nd dive, big school of the needle shaped fish, (guess I should not have missed Janna's classes so I would have known what they are)

I think you are seeing Tube Snouts

WylerBear · Post by **WylerBear** » Fri May 06, 2011 11:00 am

And you probably aren't seeing Cuttlefish. Perhaps Squid? Maybe Stubby Squid?

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Fri May 06, 2011 12:43 pm

I would have been thrilled with 15 to 20! Above 30 feet, we were measuring viz in that many inches

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Fri May 06, 2011 1:07 pm

Lonestar wrote:Ditto LCF Cove 2 last night, vis was horrible. 1st dive there was a sea lion swimming around, over, past, by, everything but into us as he was feasting on fish. It was kinda cool at first but got to be a PITA having to slam the brakes on repeatedly to avoid a collision with him. We didn't do a header into the jackstraw but darn near ran over the folks who were diving doubles, sorry!

Saw more life on 2nd dive, big school of the needle shaped fish, (guess I should not have missed Janna's classes so I would have known what they are) Rat Fish, cuttlefish, Longfin Sculpin, a small Red Octo, lots of shrimp and no sea lion.

What you saw was probably a harbor seal ... I do see sea lions at Cove 2 from time to time, but harbor seals are far more common. Sea lions are big, and typically don't interact with divers. Harbor seals like our dive lights, and flit around making a silty mess. They're "cute" for about 30 seconds ... then you just wish they'd go off and bother somebody else.

There were 11 of us out on scooters last night ... in that vis, it made for some interesting developments ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » Fri May 06, 2011 3:39 pm

I'll go with Harbor Seal, coloring was right as well as getting tired of him lickety split! So the long skinny little fish are?

Bet that was some fun scootin' around in all that!

Norris · Post by **Norris** » Fri May 06, 2011 4:51 pm

Lonestar wrote:I'll go with Harbor Seal, coloring was right as well as getting tired of him lickety split! So the long skinny little fish are?

Bet that was some fun scootin' around in all that!

Tubesnouts - AKA Puget Sound Sea Horses

WylerBear · Post by **WylerBear** » Fri May 06, 2011 5:54 pm

Norris wrote:
Lonestar wrote:

Tubesnouts - AKA Puget Sound Sea Horses

Yes, as I said earlier, probably Tube Snouts. And it's the Bay Pipefish that are related to Sea Horses, not the Tube Snouts.

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Fri May 06, 2011 7:51 pm

WylerBear wrote: Tubesnouts - AKA Puget Sound Sea Horses

Yes, as I said earlier, probably Tube Snouts. And it's the Bay Pipefish that are related to Sea Horses, not the Tube Snouts.

And you won't see pipefish swimming around. Like their cousins they like to hang out in the grass and pretend that they are a blade of grass. If you look at a close up of a tubesnout you will see the look like a dart

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » Fri May 06, 2011 8:21 pm

This guy is a .........?

Dusty2 · Post by **Dusty2** » Fri May 06, 2011 8:58 pm

Stubby Squid

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » Fri May 06, 2011 9:29 pm

Thanks! Corrections made

BASSMAN · Post by **BASSMAN** » Sat May 07, 2011 12:17 am

Vis @ Three Tree N. Thursday 5/5/11 Went bad compared to last week. Above 50 feet it was like 10 foot or less with all of the "Clam Stuff" being thrown up all over the place. Yuck!

H20doctor · Post by **H20doctor** » Sat May 07, 2011 2:06 pm

gutholmj wrote:It's so funny how 15-20' can be called crap in one frame of mind and fantastic in another. Wait until it's less that 6' again and you'll be pining for the days of 15-20.

H20doctor wrote:3 tree north .. Crap . The 50 feet has gone

Kinda hard to scooter in 6 feet of vis ...

just saying

enchantmentdivi · Post by **enchantmentdivi** » Sat May 07, 2011 6:24 pm

Three Tree North, 5/7/11, 15+ ft

gutholmj · Post by **gutholmj** » Sat May 07, 2011 6:41 pm

H20doctor wrote:
gutholmj wrote:It's so funny how 15-20' can be called crap in one frame of mind and fantastic in another. Wait until it's less that 6' again and you'll be pining for the days of 15-20.

H20doctor wrote:3 tree north .. Crap . The 50 feet has gone
Kinda hard to scooter in 6 feet of vis ... just saying

Use the Force, young Jedi.

BASSMAN · Post by **BASSMAN** » Sun May 08, 2011 10:31 pm

Yeah it's amazing how a single scooter at Three Tree, can silt out a perfectly good dive site.

Actually I just wish I had a scooter too!

Wait, "If I wish in one hand and ???? in the other...

Awe,

never mind, get that scooter crack away from me before I have to come up with a good "I need it..." excuse!

ljjames · Post by **ljjames** » Sun May 08, 2011 11:08 pm

scootercrack... Om nom nom....

Vis in Lk Crescent was fantastic up shallow... around 100' there was a weird inversion layer... got better again >150.

FlyinV · Post by **FlyinV** » Mon May 09, 2011 7:45 am

Netarts Bay - May 8th
10 feet at low tide

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Mon May 09, 2011 12:32 pm

Cove 2 this morning, much improved! A good 15 feet in the shallows, although still kind of junky. Lots of sea lettuce coming up.

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