Viz Reports Thread

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Point Whitney, Brinnon, 7/3: 6 feet, at best, above 50ft. Below 50ft -- and a raging thermocline -- it opened up to 25+ ft. Sweet!
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Had probably 25-30ft at Junkyard yesterday 7/2. Was quite surprised, actually.
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7/3/2017 Day Island Wall was quite nice, variable, but mostly 25' or so! Titlow was the same, and just magical with the sunlight streaming through the pilings!
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7/4/17 13:00 Redondo. 10+ feet. great sunny day for a dive!
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7/4 Fox Island east wall 20 feet and quite clear. West wall about 15ft.
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7/8 Flagpole. Milky 0 to 20 feet. 30-50 feet of viz at depth.
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Sat 7-8-17. Port Townsend waterfront
Hazy, snotty, gnarly viz, less than 10' with lots of floaties.
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Keystone was pretty yucky today. 10' at best, socking down to 5' at the end of our second dive.
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7/16 Sund Rock.

The water looked extremely teal today from shore :dontknow: .
~5ft above 25ish and over 20ft at depth. It was rather chilly 49 degrees out by the sea whips
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We had 30-80 ft viz at Neah Bay this weekend
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Saturday 7/15:
- Dalco Wall: 5-6 foot visibility near surface, 10-15 foot below 45fsw.
- KVI Towers: Similar, perhaps places with ~15-20 foot visibility, at depth.
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Absolute shite down to 50' in cove 3 today on the high tide...
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Anyone know how the vis is looking around Sund rock or Les davis? Trying to decide where to take a new diver tomorrow
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Sund Rock typically has better viz this time of year.
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Clay wrote:Anyone know how the vis is looking around Sund rock or Les davis? Trying to decide where to take a new diver tomorrow
What Jeff Said.

Sund was really good below 60 fsw or so this last month, but with a newer diver doing a deeper profile might be less desirable??

Although.... we discovered by accident that diving Les Davis at the end of a large EBB pulled much of the river silt out into the bay and at times resulted in almost spectacular viz at Les Davis.

Sadly, the chances of really good viz in the inner sound right now are pretty slim. I'd consider trying Three Tree on a higher tide as well, usually better than Redondo.
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7/22 Mukilteo at the site of future ferry dock.

Vis at surface 0 vis at -10 was 2 feet.

We had to swim a long way out to get to deeper water where the vis opened up to about 20 feet once you got below -50.

Water temp was very warm 54F.

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Sund Rock on Tuesday was 0 viz down to 35-40 ft. Opened up to 5-7 ft between 40-50 ft. Below 50 ft, we had about 10-12 ft. But, the surface of the water was a spectacular color due to the coccolithophore bloom right now.
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enchantmentdivi wrote:... a spectacular color due to the coccolithophore bloom right now.
Coccolithophore!
Coccolithophore!

I just like saying that. Now if they actually tasted like coco...
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7/29 Cove 2 almost 20ft viz above 80ish. Surprisingly murkier at 100ft by the I-Beams.

Wonderful morning viz!
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Day Island Wall had a layer of yuck from about 20 fsw to about 15'.

Titlow was 10 to 15, more often 10.
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Monday 7/31, Alki Cove 2: A little choppy at the surface (shallower than 15fsw), but ~15ft of visibility deeper than 15 or 20fsw. Barely needed my light for the first dive, in 60fsw.
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Fox Island West Wall was murky above 20 faq. Below that it was 15 to 20, and lots of life.

East Wall was variable 5 to 15, lots of swirlies.
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Aug-5 Mukilteo - Gnarley haze layer at ~20-25'-ish, below that viz opened up to 20' and was probably 30' at 130' deep.
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Cove2 Sun 8/6/17 20 fsw!! Excellent viz at 7 AM splash! Dove Redondo Sat craptastic viz maybe 3 fsw. Total night dive at 45 fsw.

Get out to Cove2 whole it lasts!!!
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3 Tree was maybe 3ft down to 35ft. After that it opened to 15-20ft. Pretty nice dive actually.
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