Viz Reports Thread

[ljjames]

Lake Washington, 30' or better down to 50 feet.

like like like!!!

was there a murk layer to 20, or is it clearing up all the way?

[gutholmj]

Ruston Way Sewer Pipe.

Just ridiculous. At least 35-40'. Lots of ambient light at 130 fsw. I turned to look up and I could see the the marker buoy at the surface. WOW!!!

[cardiver]

Ruston Way Sewer Pipe.

Just ridiculous. At least 35-40'. Lots of ambient light at 130 fsw. I turned to look up and I could see the the marker buoy at the surface. WOW!!!

I'm off in an hour!

[LCF]

Lake Washington -- probably 25 feet to 120; then maybe ten. We had ambient light at 80 feet; it was cool.

[dwashbur]

Cove 2 yesterday was a good 40' around the jackstraws and the Honey Bear. Best we've seen in a long time.

[LCF]

Cove 2 today -- EXCELLENT visibility down to 40 feet. At least 30 to 40 feet. Lots of critters out and about!

[Tom Nic]

Oooo.... this is sounding good!

Headed for the Hood tomorrow, and I know viz can be an iffy proposition there, but here's hopin'! Report tomorrow...

[BillZ]

We dove Long Island and Castle Rock in the San Juans yesterday. Vis was 40 - 50 ft and you could see the surface from 80 ft.

[Nwbrewer]

Cove 2 today -- EXCELLENT visibility down to 40 feet. At least 30 to 40 feet. Lots of critters out and about!

You're spoiling those students. The whole point of taking class in local waters is to get comfortable with Low vis. They're going to think it's always like Hawaii in Puget Sound.

[octo$teve43]

hoods canal easily 40' to 50'

[Tom Nic]

Sund Rock today was 20' variable viz with clouds of fry cutting the viz down. My max depth was 34fsw because my ear wouldn't clear, but I'm guessing it was better down deep.

[PapaZ]

Hood Canal, Hoodsport, Thursday, July 22nd
20-30 foot viz!

[Benoit]

Redondo Thursday, July 22 evening
2' top 10fsw, slowing improving to 15' at 50fsw and to 25' at 85fsw.

[gutholmj]

Redondo, 7/24 around noon.

3-6' down to 40 fsw. Opening up nicely below about 60 fsw to 15'+. Not a whole lot of critters out.

[lundysd]

Cove II Friday July 23 2010

Mucky 15' at depth -- viz is getting bad in a hurry

[Jan K]

Keystone jetty July 25, high tide 6 PM. About 12 feet, lot of particles carried by the current..

[pogiguy05]

Redondo, 7/24 around noon.

3-6' down to 40 fsw. Opening up nicely below about 60 fsw to 15'+. Not a whole lot of critters out.

This is the pic I took at the carousel boat.In the shallows the VIZ was at best.

[ljjames]

vis last night at cove 2, 20+

if you find a black frameless mask (hey, before you poke fun at posting color, there are white ones with flowers at UW Sports Federal Way) it might be Lamonts...

[cardiver]

TTN this moning was between 5-15 fsw. Keith and I went down to 116 and it didn't get any better. Optimal depth seemed to be about 60 fsw. Good mix of available light and visibility.

[dwashbur]

TTN yesterday around 5 PM was pretty bad, 5-10 feet at best. We got to around 70 fsw and it didn't really get any better. Still lots of critters out, though, including a tiny octo and two lion nudibranchs.

[LCF]

Cove 2 last night was awful. In places, it was probably three or four feet in the shallows. It "opened up" to maybe 10 at 50 feet. Definitely another bloom!

[Benoit]

TTN last night was sometime as good as 10'... That largish dogfish at 20fsw was not shy at all.

[WylerBear]

Redondo 7/29 Less than 5' in the shallows opening up to maybe 6-8' in the 35-60' range. Didn't go deeper than that because I had an OW student with me today.

[nwbobber]

Octopus hole this afternoon. 25-30ft viz below 20' first dive. Second maybe 20' because of the krill. Lovely.

[Alexitt]

Keystone Sunday, 10' max. 2-3' min. But still fun and saw 5 different octo's today...