Viz Reports Thread

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Sunrise 1/24 about 8-10 feet from top of the wall all the way to 50 feet. :)
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stphnmartin wrote:Fox Island 1/24 about 7 feet.
By boat? Felt like we had the whole smooth beautiful sound to ourselves today on Brad's boat!
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YellowEye wrote:
stphnmartin wrote:Fox Island 1/24 about 7 feet.
By boat? Felt like we had the whole smooth beautiful sound to ourselves today on Brad's boat!
No JPA and I were slumming it from the shore!
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1/31 Sunrise Beach (not via boat!) 15-20 feet. The cloudiness seems to be lessening a bit.
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Edmonds UWP yesterday was 10-15 feet and kinda milky. Tons of super fiesty huge ling cods on eggs. Also a lot of alabaster nudies out & about! :)
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1/31 @ 14:00 Lobster shop wall, Mofo wall, Course Marker wall and Kirby's wall, all were barely "a hazy 10 feet" Very poor viz.
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1/30 @ sundrock was a solid 20+ feet. I could see my float anchor from the surface at 20 feet, Octos and Wolf eels weren't home during the night dive on the wall.
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2/7 Blakely rock, china wall 15-20 feet.
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2/14 Redondo. 20 feet, a bit cloudy.
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2/21 Sunrise Beach, 20 feet.
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Sund Rock Sunday 2/20.
Above the salt water layer - stream runoff and fresh water 25 - 50 feet, down to about 15 fsw.
Below the fresh water layer 15 fsw and below, 10 - 20.
Below 150 fsw, 5 - 15. Looks like someone was stirring up the silt.
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Three Tree North 2/23, low tide, wind out of the north, surf entry, trashed viz till you were deeper, 15' to maybe 20'
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Cove2 Tuesday 2/23 at 7:30 pm
5 to 15 ft viz due to harbor seals stiring slit up eating shiner perch in our dive lights!!! Annoying little turds!!!!
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Hoodsport, 3/6/2016, 9:30am
Murky from surface to 5fsw....
Then it opened up real nice below that. A solid 20-30ft vis!
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Lake Washington, PB4Y bomber
3/6/2016 @ 14:00
surface to 10 ffw about 10-20 feet viz
below 10 - 40 ffw about 7 - 15 feet viz
below 50 - 120 ffw about 5 - 10 feet viz
At the bomber (150ffw) about 5-7 at best - typical lake washington viz!!! :partydance:
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Lobster Shop on 03/06, after the current stopped we had greater than 40' at the wall (~100fsw) at around 11:00 am. Best viz I have had in my 2 years of diving here! Didn't see a lot on the wall, but saw a lot of the wall!
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Sund Rock, 3/19

Surface to 20fsw: 8' vis
21-40fsw: 20' vis
40+fsw: 40' vis

There's a bit of a bloom in the upper layer, but really nice below.
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Keystone 4.19.2016
10-15 viz, clear in the shallows but milky along the jetty.
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Any viz reports lately, or is it so bad that y'all stopped diving :smt064 :eek:

Specifically wondering about Alki, Muk and Edmonds.
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Edmonds, Sunday Apr 3, 2016 - 10 to 15 feet, but with the bright Sun at least that 15 feet was well lit.
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Three Tree today was 20 to 25', better the deeper you went, and we took advantage of the low tide to drop to 100 fsw or so both north and south to cover some new ground.
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Thanks guys, already heading to Edmonds tomorrow based on what carlk3 wrote but sounds like I need to visit 3tree real soon too!
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Sund yesterday was 30+ below 50 ish fsw, and 20' or so above 20 fsw - very nice!

Between 20 & 50, however, it was around 5'.

Weird to see the algae bloom "sandwiched" like that - I'm assuming that it was temperature related.
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Cove 2 was about 20-25 feet once you got below 10fsw. You don't need a flashlight until you get past 90 feet. As a plus, the new showers are back on.
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Brace Point (south of Fauntleroy Ferry) 5' down to 40' on the ebbing high tide today (was a mooring buoy inspection so didn't wander deeper) Clams spoooooooging everywhere. Hello spring!
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