Northwest Dive Club

Redondo is still less than 5' viz all the way down to 85fsw. Huge plankton ice critters / masses, especially above 30 fsw. Feels like swimming in amoeba soup.

Seacrest Coves had a green layer shallow that dissipated below about 30 feet and then it opened up nicely to about 20-25' of vis, with very little particulate matter in the water.

Tangfish wrote:Seacrest Coves had a green layer shallow that dissipated below about 30 feet and then it opened up nicely to about 20-25' of vis, with very little particulate matter in the water.

Awesome, sounds like it is breaking up!

8/13/15
Hat (Gedney) Island fishing reef 20+ foot Vis
Possession Wall (Fingers) 20 foot vis

8/14 Cove 2 Afternoon. Super nice probably 30+ deeper than 30ft. The layer on top is there but its not that bad and seems to be thinning out.

8/15 Cove 2. 30+ feet. The heavy rains didn't muck it up. Get it while it's good!

8/15 0800, Cove 3. Really nice conditions (20-25 ft) for OW class today with outgoing tide.

8-19 Sunnyside Park - Looked awesome in the shallows, but closed right up to 8-10' viz below 10' and never got much better out to the 60' range on the pipeline. Good ambient light down at depth though, so all in all it didn't suck too bad.

Neah Bay is a surgy 20-25' at Tatoosh South & Mushroom. Big swells, getting worse the next few days. It's going to be 'iffy' out there.

The Jetty barely had 10' viz as the surge pounded the shore.

Has anyone dove Redondo recently? I am curious if the viz is any better than last weekend.

Vis was pretty decent at Day Island Wall this afternoon (probably 15ft).

Redondo was 18-24" all the way to 90'

Scubie Doo wrote:Redondo was 18-24" all the way to 90'

Thanks for the update!

Possession Rocks 15 - 20 ft. Possession Wall 20-25 ft

What is Possession Rocks?

8/23/15: Alki Fishing Reef around 20-25', Blakely Rock was 25-30'

8/23/15: Saltwater St Park 25-30'

Jeremy wrote:What is Possession Rocks?

https://pugetsounding.smugmug.com/North ... ion-Rocks/

Hoodsport: Sund Rock, Octopus Hole: 8/22, 8/23:
clear in the shallows, down to about 15ft.
real nasty layer of bloom from 20-30ft. Maybe 2ft viz, at best.
Clears up to 10-15ft viz below that, but gets dark at 60fsw.

Everything is up shallow right now. Rockfish are hanging out at 12fsw at Sund.
Edit: here's a video of the rockfish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70SPMMV88mA

Didn't see any wolfeels on the north wall at depth at Sund. ZERO.
octos in the open at 20ft in the fishbowl.

ohopdiver wrote:

Jeremy wrote:What is Possession Rocks?

https://pugetsounding.smugmug.com/North ... ion-Rocks/

Thanks

Boeing Creek yesterday: 15 - 20 foot vis on the rocks, 10 above, 25 below to 80 FSW

Cove 2 today: 35' viz per GUE Seattle secchi disk

It was like swimming in an aquarium!

Cove 2 Thursday 0930, high tide starting outflow. Awesome fish-bowl viz continues, but there was a layer of misou soup about 20' or so. In the shallows, and once below, viz was most excellent.

When I was landing at SeaTac yesterday I was amazed at the visibility from the air - you could see a ton of structure near shore. I'm glad that the reports confirm what I saw from the air - time to go diving!

On Monday ill be flying in a plane with my little brother whos learning to fly.
Ill hopefully get some pictures of the water from the air.