Viz Reports Thread

[BASSMAN]

Three Tree N. = 10 to 15 in the shallows but opened up to about 30 or 40 feet at depths below 50 feet.

[aquaholic24]

Redondo 8/28
2-5 feet--abysmal. The snot strings are gone, but there was a ton of gunk in the water. And a fair current, too, at around 50'--odd!

[enchantmentdivi]

Redondo, 8/27: 2 ft to maybe 10 ft in spots (pretty dreadful!)

[Jan K]

Langley Tire Reef, Tuesday afternoon , Viz 5 feet on top, 15 on the bottom, lot of silt and some snot.

[aquaholic24]

Redondo last night was pretty decent--you can kind of see around the long snot strings which makes it not too bad (around 10-15' or so at 80 ft.) Dragged my husband on his first *twilight* dive last night. Saw some sand lance,tube fish, and a (rather large!) sea cucumber. Sweet!! I just wish there were more hours in the day...

[LCF]

Skyline Wall this afternoon, ten to 15 feet at best, heavy fine particulates in the water.

[enchantmentdivi]

Sunrise 8/24 20+ ft
Day Island Wall 8/25 20+ ft

[Maverick]

it was 30-40 feet at 185fsw on the coaster this past sunday. it was a great dive, I was safety, but only till i get trimix

[Tom Nic]

Thanks for the reports! If we post them, this thread will have value!

[Jan K]

Saturday 23 Keystone. Not that impressive 15' at jetty. Lot of silt in water.

[ljjames]

rather milky 10-15 at skyline

Downright crap at urchin rocks/rosario head. 5'? "DODGE THE KELP STALK!" (a new game)

[LCF]

Oh, I was in the water that August day, with Bob. We did Three Tree. The viz was INSANE. At 75 feet, we were watching the sunlight dance on the pebbles on the bottom. You could see forever. I'll never forget that dive, or the one I did a few weeks back in Cove 2, where the viz was darned near that good. It's AMAZING how your perception of a place is permanently changed, when you can actually see all of it!

[Tom Nic]

Three Tree North, 8-22-08, large snot globules in the 10 to 25 fsw range, but it was easily 30 ft. or more of viz below 40 ft. Hopefully the "snot globules" portend some even better viz soon. The best viz I ever saw here was a movie that was playing at TLSea that was purportedly shot in August a couple of years ago - viz was at least 70 ft - looked downright tropical!

[BillZ]

Hey NWbrewer! I assume you were the diver with the pickup parked facing the Silver Cloud.

The guy with the spool was my buddy Rob. I was the slightly heftier guy. He knotted it up but probably needs to replace the line. It was strange that it broke since it was only the 4th time he's used it.

Next time you see us drop by and we'll buy you a beer at the Knot.

[Nwbrewer]

Hey I met BillZ last night! Did you get your Spool straightened out?

[BillZ]

We were also at the Muk last night and as NWBREWER said, the vis was in the 20'ft range. Great dive until the end when we were almost creamed by some yahoo's in a fishing boat who wanted to check out what the big orange marker was that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

[Nwbrewer]

That's about what I had at Mukilteo last night. Probably 15-20'.

[LCF]

Redondo last night . . . Weird viz; great in the very shallow water, moderate in the middle, better at depth. The crud is aggregating into whale snot again -- I suspect the viz this weekend may be fantastic.

[cardiver]

Go ahead, Tom......Rub it in!

[Tom Nic]

Well, since the other thread got put in the planning section (which it technically could be) I'm starting a new Viz Reports thread in the Trip Reports section as well.

Please post your viz reports!!

Sund Rock 20 - 30 ft. today. Best I've seen all year!