Northwest Dive Club

Question A: Best wall dives in the Sound?
Question B: Closest wall dives to Bellevue?

Im not officially planning a dive yet, but ive been itching for a good wall dive, so im just curious what all there is out there

A) Day Island Wall, Long Island Wall, Dalco Wall

Sunrise, Day Island and Fox Island (east wall).

Pulali East, Pulali South Fingers, Rosie's Ravine, Flagpole (but this one's deep). All within a beautiful 3 hour drive and short relaxing boat ride from Bellevue.
Don

Shit, I forgot to mention I was looking for shore dives only. And 3 hour drive is a bit long for me lol. I only have 1 tank right now, but even with two.... Thats a long haul for two dives.

maybe, but...its worth it!! We used to drive up from portland to dive 2 tanks...

Its not so much the drive that bothers me as it is the gas prices

Car pool, 3-tank trip, tank rental is only $5.00 for air. Just throwin out options for the great wall dives you asked for

Day island isn't too far away, although parking can be hazardous.

My favorite wall dive ever so far has been Snake Island wall in Nanaimo, though it's a a boat dive, and in Nanaimo.

Day Island and Sunrise are the best wall dives I can think of that you can do from shore. For a smaller but easily accessible wall, you can do the clay walls at Mukilteo -- but beware of current there, because it can be strong. (As can Day Island and Sunrise; I've gotten spanked at DIW when the exchange was quite small, but we tried to dive off slack.)

Flagpole is a stupendous dive but a long surface swim. Sund Rock has two walls, north and south, and has parking and easy water access. I don't think it's terribly hard to find someone who wants to go out to Hood Canal to carpool with. The diving out there is great.

I still say that DIW or 3 tree point (or whatever is near octopus hole?) are my favorite walls. Delco (sp?) is worthwhile as well

tho... I already texted this to you >.<

We can split gas costs tho and maybe get Richard as a third for friday

Shore dive it has to be "Skyline Wall"

While we're on the topic of the Hood Canal Jorsted Creek also has a decent wall. It doesn't have the life that Flagpole does, and you'll see the larger critters at the top of the wall. The bottom of the wall peters out at about 115 if I remember correctly.

There are rumors of another deep wall at Jorsted that starts at about 130, but I haven't gone looking for it yet. But now that I have the power to scooter it's on the radar.

Austin

Leshi wall is the the closest to Bellevue, in Lake Washington.

To do great wall dives in Puget Sound you need to drive 2-3 hrs, have a boat/charter or both.

Jorsted is a surprisingly good dive (surprising to me, because I had never heard of it).

Skyline's a fantastic dive, but very quirky current-wise. I guess I never think of it as a wall, really, because to me it seems like more of a boulder slope.

CaptnJack wrote:Leshi wall is the the closest to Bellevue, in Lake Washington.

To do great wall dives in Puget Sound you need to drive 2-3 hrs, have a boat/charter or both.

The mukilteo clay walls aren't that much more of a drive and they have life on them...

Nwbrewer wrote:

CaptnJack wrote:Leshi wall is the the closest to Bellevue, in Lake Washington.

To do great wall dives in Puget Sound you need to drive 2-3 hrs, have a boat/charter or both.

The mukilteo clay walls aren't that much more of a drive and they have life on them...

Guess I don't consider those lil things walls

Dalco is a wall
Waterman's is a wall
Rosie's is a wall
Long Island is a wall

Mukilteo is a wall

CaptnJack wrote:

Nwbrewer wrote:

CaptnJack wrote:Leshi wall is the the closest to Bellevue, in Lake Washington.

To do great wall dives in Puget Sound you need to drive 2-3 hrs, have a boat/charter or both.

The mukilteo clay walls aren't that much more of a drive and they have life on them...

Guess I don't consider those lil things walls

Dalco is a wall
Waterman's is a wall
Rosie's is a wall
Long Island is a wall

Mukilteo is a wall

True. I've never done the leschi wall, but it's on my list. It is in the lake after all....

Nwbrewer wrote:I've never done the leschi wall, but it's on my list.

Hopefully at the bottom, of a very long list

Mortuus what size tank do you have? While some of these things start fairly close to the surface, some of these walls also start fairly deep. I would say too deep for a single al80, although some might disagree with that.

Sunrise is probably the shallowest as its in the 28-45fsw range or so.

Currently diving a LP 77 (+ rating, so I can fill it higher), but I have good air consumption. My NDL will limit me waaaaaaaay before my air does up until about the 50 or 60 ft mark. Good thing too. I like deep.

BDub wrote:

Nwbrewer wrote:I've never done the leschi wall, but it's on my list.

Hopefully at the bottom, of a very long list

Way at the bottom.

Mortuus wrote:Currently diving a LP 77 (+ rating, so I can fill it higher), but I have good air consumption. My NDL will limit me waaaaaaaay before my air does up until about the 50 or 60 ft mark. Good thing too. I like deep.

K, how deep is deep for you? 77cf even overfilled to 87cf (3000psi) is pretty small in the scheme of things.

Might ask your buddy how much he/she wants you to reserve for them. There are a couple instructors here on the board hosting free "gas management" seminars, good stuff. There should be one coming along sometime soon since its been awhile since anyone has hosted one. Lamont and Bob both has good webpages about it, but I am not able to find them easily, maybe someone else can post links.

Deception Pass and Sares head.

BDub wrote:

Nwbrewer wrote:I've never done the leschi wall, but it's on my list.

Hopefully at the bottom, of a very long list

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