Northwest Dive Club

YellowEye wrote:

Sharkb8 wrote:Skyline Wall in Anacortes, 2-24-18: Decent 10 ft today, maybe even a dark 15 ft at times. The cucumbers are out feeding again so everything was really colorful. Found a big king crab at 60 ft Made up for only seeing one candy stripe. It was snowing when we got in and cold, but oh so worth the suffering! Breakfast Guinness and a shot of Jim Beam for John’s bday after at the Brown Lantern warmed things back up quickly.

Ooh, sounds like a great day! Love the brown lantern!

King Crab???

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Star Date: 2018031.7 aka St. Patrick's Day
Fort Ward State Park on Bainbridge Island, 10-15 feet viz, max depth 20 feet, not much life here.

March 17, up to 30 feet at Saltwater Park.
March 18, 15 feet East side Duamish Head except 5-10 in the slide area.

3/17 Norrander's reef 20 feet viz below 40. 10-15 viz above 40 feet.

Did you see a GPO on the upper reef at all? The shop on the island told me there was one towards the bottom of it. I haven't been out there since Jan.

BASSMAN wrote:King Crab???

PSKC!!! Almost spring time, and love is in the air (water)

Also, Mukilteo T-Dock on 3-17-18 was a dark 8-10 ft on dive 1 down to the geodome at 55 fsw. 2nd dive was a little better even with the ebb, still a murky 15'ish though. Pretty strong halocline at 8 ft near the stormwater discharge pipe made for some funny viewing of all the baby sea stars!

Sidenote, there was an absolute dogpile of big mottled stars on the little tire reef up from the dome. I don't recall seeing that many in one spot in the sound in a long time. Not sure if that was an actual positive sign of recovery, or just a coincidence.

Sund Rock 3-20-2018 was ...interesting.
Water was 2 degrees warmer than inner Sound.
The green algae bloom is in full swing.
Top 10 fsw 10' viz.
10 to 55/60 fsw 2' to 3' viz.
Below 60 fsw 15' ish viz, night dive conditions.
Lots of life, 3 deep, long, nitrogen loading dives!

3/22 Redondo, epic viz! 50 feet, crystal clear! Get it while it lasts!

stphnmartin wrote:3/22 Redondo, epic viz! 50 feet, crystal clear! Get it while it lasts!

The best viz I have seen at Redondo!!!

KVI Reef March 25th - 40+ feet with sun. Very nice!

3/24 Cove 2- 20+ ft with sunshine down to 60ft!

March 25: Boeing Creek 25 feet, Horizontal Barge Shilshole about 40 feet.

3/25 cove 2 up to 30 foot with some nice sunny moments!

Edmonds this morning well after high tide had 50+ ft of vis if not more at times! Never seen it that good. Sooooooooo many nudies and cranky cabezon, and the sea pen outbreak is still going strong. Also saw 2 healthy midsize sunflower stars on Centennial Way. Epic conditions for sure.

omg I gotta get wet!

The Dond for Ththth on the 29th, 30' vis. Epic.

Saturday 3/31: Omar and the Rock in Shilshole Bay 25 foot vis, Elliot Bay Marina Jetty 20 ft vis.

Edmonds Saturday was the best I've ever seen it, by probably double the distance. Hard to measure when it's that far, but 50 foot would not be an exaggeration. I would conservatively say 45-60 foot!

Up to 30 - 35 feet at Edmonds Underwater Park yesterday 4/3 at low tide

4/7 Edmonds- 20-25ft. Note quite as nice as some of the recent reports.

4-8 at Keystone. The pilings and jetty down to the bottom of the slope were a bowl of milk due to the winds and waves. No surprise there. Should have brought cereal instead of scuba gear (not really)! Down a bit deeper it opened up to a hazy 15ft.

Day Island Wall 4-9 was about 15' at low slack. Fabulous, perfectly timed, 70 minute dive!

Monday, April 9, Edmonds UW -- 30+ ft'

Alki junkyard 20 - 25 ft on 4/8

Sunrise 4-10 was 25 to 30' - Wonderful!