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We just went down to 30' today, but the visibility was consistent throughout the water column. Water temp was comfortable, but water was a bit choppy with the wind and plenty of new logs have shown up on the shore line.

Lots of GpOs in holes with a few reaching out to touch. Just as many wolf eels too. Nice dive with visibility way better than I expected!

Excellent conditions in the canal, 20ft clear visibility was a pleasant surprise especially considering how muddy the sound is currently. Lots of large GPO’s and wolf eels.

Two dives, 8:45am and 10:30am. Viz definitely opened up at 30fsw during descent on the second dive. Couple of rat fish, normal collection of shrimp and crabs. Three red octos, one in about 40fsw spread out and blending in very well. Long-mouthed aeolids of several sizes throughout the site, and one large white lined dirona on our way back to the surface.

Report from junkyard: about 5 ft until 30 ft, then opened up to about 15ish ft. Lots of stubbies!

Very bad visibility. It was hard to see my buddy who was just next to me. I suspsected the rain and flooding is the reason for this.

Report from Shan: the first 10 to 15 feet was a halocline but after that it opened up to 15+ feet of visibility. Hoping it sticks around! Lots of GPO's if you go off the pipeline to the east at about 30 feet.

Three GPOs around the north wall and fish bowl. Three grunt sculpins too!! Bad visibility in the shallows but cleared up decently at depth

Vis was pretty nice (20+ ft) at 80fsw, and got progressively worse towards the surface, but at 30fsw it was still ~10 ft (the top 10 fsw were soup though). Very nice dives! Highlights for me included a grunt sculpin, skate egg, longfin gunnel, and an actively swimming giant dendronotid on the S wall (I think this same nudi has been there for 3+ months).

Muddy above 70. Okay but dark down at 80. The highlight of the dive was a baby horned shrimp! Super cute! I've never seen that before! Couple adult horned shrimp. A pair of octos that were either fighting or mating. A diamond back eating a seapen. One neon sea flea. A few three lined nudies and spiders.

Relatively decent viz at TTN given all the rain and flooding. Saw a 3 pound octopus with a chunk bitten out of it.

The surface layer was down to at least 20 feet of depth. And then even below that the visibility was at about seven to 10 feet if you were lucky.

Lots of flotsam on the surface, hoping to find some visibility under the miso soup. It did open to 5-10 feet, but it was like a night dive under all that mess above. And silt was like a snowstorm. I did find two young Sunflower stars, everything covered with fine silt. Many crab traps under the docks, but no Dungeness inside or around. What is amazing is the number of Northern Kelp crabs. They are everywhere. No kelp in sight and I never seen that many here in the harbor. I saw couple of them fighting over mussels which fell to the bottom from the dock.

I saw George mention this: I went down to Mukilteo today and decided not to dive. Water was moving fast, visibility was near zero and the water smelled of sewage.

I can't imagine visibility will be great this weekend but there remain a few pockets of ok viz in recent days. Fyi, you can show reports from only recent days by clicking the 10 day button on the homepage map and switching to a lesser number of days. Keep the reports coming and have a great weekend!

Below the muddy freshwater layer (to about 10 feet) the vis was amazingly good considering all the rain and floods. We saw a juv grunt sculpin, speckled sanddab, four species of rockfish and 4 species of perch. The sea lion is being worked on by crabs but nothing big (shark). Also a lingcod, painted and whitespotted greenlings. We saw a (pick one) small GPO or a very large red octopus. It went into an log so it didn't give us a final identification.

Needed to get below 15 ft to see your fins, the seal is still by the I beams and a LOT of bait fish/life is out and about!

Viz was better than expected with all the recent rains. We were on the hunt for neon sea fleas. Only saw one of those but plenty of other stuff. So many sturgeon poachers! Baby rough backs, a gunnel in the open, white spotted greenling eggs, a nice stubby, sea spiders, snail fish, and a lumpy! We heard Preston and crew saw a grunt too!

Turned early due to stiff current away from the entry. Saw leopard, alabaster, and yellow margin nudibranchs. Orange sea cucumbers are all closed up for the season.

**commercial dive** Despite all the rain runoff, only a thin brown halocline right at the surface. Underneath that water quality and viz was pretty normal looking

Mild current, light wind and rain this morning. Pretty hazy visibility at all depths. Good dive for practicing skills though. Crabs, nudibranchs, jellies, copper rockfish, perch, and a ling cod (spotted by my buddy, not me).

wind storm last night kicked it up and reduced visibility today. It wasn't too bad, but not as nice as it had been recently.

grunt sculpin and tiny moss landing aeolids were the stars of the shows today. With the high tide, low exchange, we didn't have any current. There was some surface chop due to the winds.

Cold dive because I didn't zip my zipper all the way 🥶 We found the shrimp convention 😍🌊🦐🦐🦐🦐🥳, a few flounder🥞 🐟, Eric and Kyle found 6-7 neon seas fleas at 70 feet, not many hermit crabs 🦀, a few sea spiders 🌊🕷️, jumping opossum 🦐 🦔, tube worms spawning on the line with a huge pile of squid eggs 🥚 🦑 🥚 🦑 Happy ☔🌧️ Sunday

2 more at the Stone Current o plenty. Viz, not so good, cold...oh ya. But...4 gpo dozens of nudis including mating clowns and a field of white dorids, lings and rocks, and grunt sculpin in hiding:) Dive buddy got a gpo high 5 another got slapped and taunted by a young stellar

It used to be very good photographically rewarding area. No more. Diversity went to hell together with visibility. Some Graceful crabs, two White-lined dironas, small school of skittish herring, Oysters being cultivated and some grow now wild outside the cages. Tunicates and some yellow sponges on the underside of docks.

First stubby squid sighting in a while. 5 neon sea fleas. Plenty of octo. Sailfin, roughback, opal squid, and the usual assortment of critters. Took my wide angle hoping to take snaps of juvie ratfish, but no luck finding any. Jess saw a psl!

Two very nice dives. One large red octopus, lots of lingcod and kelp greenlings. All four species of perch and 3 species of rockfish. Only saw a few nudibranchs but did find a gumboot chiton. The local NOAA Diving office was hosting a couple weeks of conference/training and came out to Cove 2 to do a dive together. Many of them were from other parts of the country, Florida Keys and Washington DC for two examples. My REEF (REEF.org) species count was 31 on dive 1 and 27 on dive 2.

Early morning dive, the sun was barely up! One seastar, at least 6 GPO. I think most life was still sleeping in or at least having their morning coffee 🤣

Highlights were a tiny red octo, two bay pipefish, and a lumpsucker

Quick fun dive... We took a few extra lbs not knowing how our trim and buoyancy would be effected by the Thanksgiving feasts. No changes to note, I hope that doesn't mean I'm like a turkey. Saw the normal crowd, water vis was good but not great. Little to no current and the weather was nice. Wish the showers still worked!

Fairly quiet dive at the Junkyard around noon today. Good vis.; we saw 2 octos, some nudis (hooded, striped, and diamondback), sea pens. School of tubesnouts in the shallows, lots of smallish helmet crabs in the eelgrass. Modest current pushing us parallel to the beach, towards Seattle (we got in a little later than planned, so just around/after the slack).

Hi. Somebody left a bin at three tree on Friday after Thanksgiving. If you came across it, let us know and we'll get it back to the owner.

Beautiful day at Salt Creek 🌲🐿️🧂🌊🤿🐙🐟🦀 🐳🪼🪼🪼🪼 🍀 🌞 had fun watching the decorator crabs, nice hooded nudibranches, Eric found me a cute shy little orange wolf eel 🧡 🐺 🦊 🐟, lots of sea nettles 🪼🪼🪼, perch, baby sea star, kelp greenlings, fish eating anemones and all the good stuff. 🤗 It was fun watching the adorable Martel family go snorkeling 🤿🌊🤩🖖🏼💖

2 great dives again at the Teo. 1st dive was dive 900 for me!!! Thank you to all friends at Anacortes Scuba Thermocline was cold and mixed shallow viz but the rest, oh my. It was a day of the usual suspects. Many octo....oh so many out and about. As many as three at a time at deep line. Wolf eel. Nudis, a very decorated warbonnet on the dome...rockfish, one was looking at an octo mighty hard. May or may not have been swished away:) The big fun was the new stuff. at least 9 bay pipe fish, green and brown. Swam past mini dome to the big logs and under log 2 a Plainfin Midshipman:) Other divers saw a dogfish and others had a fun visit with a big stellar. Such a great day.

From @littlebrrmaid... 1100 splash, 90ft max depth, 20+ ft viz, 48°, marginal current, 80 min bottom time What did we Sea? An octopus kissed me.💋 GPO, yellow eyed rockfish, tiger rockfish, grunt sculpin, decorated warbonett, giant nudibranch, wolf eels

Because of all the forage fish I swam through yesterday, I had to come back for some more. Clouds of Herring, Shiners were still awesome even if today's overcast made the scene somewhat gloomy.

1st dive 1430, 2nd dive 1630, 51F, no noticeable current, decent vis 1 red octo at honeybear, a harbor seal carcass (adult? about 5 feet) and school of pile perch near I beam, shiner and striped perch, a few spotted greenling on egg duty, lots of painted greenlings of various sizes, lingcods, school of tubesnout

A nice dive with decent visibilty at 10-15 feet. Better viz at depth than in the shallows. A surface halocline was noticeably colder and probably the reason for blurry viz in the shallows. Noticable east-to-west current at the surface and at depth, but it was manageable. Lots of copper rockfish, several painted greenlings, a brave red octopus out and about, silver ratfish, a beautiful painted anemone and a moon snail were all easy to spot around the geodome, pipe stack, block house and pier.

Dove with mz53480 for about an hour. Water was noticeably cooler from surface to 15fsw. Visibility improved there to 30ft. Saw numerous Ling Cod, many protecting eggs. Also found three GPO, two were quite large. - so nice to have them back on the North Wall again. The usual contingent of Wolf Eels were present as well.

WOw! Visibility was excellent, current was minimal, team was amazing. What a LOVELY dove ! We had so many varieties of large, adult rockfish, two GPOs on eggs (one near the mooring line and one at 160’, a wolf eel on eggs around 160’ and so many more wolf eels and GPOs throughout the dive. 7 varieties of rockfish, painted greenling and kelp greenling, massive lingcod, sea lion buzzing us, a handful of types of nudibranchs, and soo much more. daylight down to 130’ or so,

Scootered along the Gedney Island Wall for about a mile, zero current

One small Sunflower star. Clouds of forage fish, Shiner and Striped perch, Tuesnout, not many Rockfish. Most Giant Plumose anemones flat. Only few Dungeness, more Red rock crabs, but lots Northern Kelp crabs, many of which hang onto Crab traps. And they had not much in them to satisfy the people setting them from the floating dock above. Few wasting Mottled stars.

Hooded Nudibranchs

Enjoyable dive among the mighty boulder fields at Mats Mats. Impressive structure!

So many lemons… only one northern leopard nudi. At least 6 GPO’s. Didn’t find any with eggs though. Not many fish, a few painted greenlings, and one fish yet to be identified. Vis was pretty good. No other divers!

Wind and waves chased us to the south side of Alki where it was sunny and beautiful. The viz was outstanding and the sun was beautiful on this shallow dive. Lots of big, beautiful sea lemons showing their full plumage as well as a few other assorted nudibranchs as well. The purple ochre stars were just beatiful in the sunlight as well. There was some current but nothing horrible - we made it to the lower pipe and then back in just fine.

Fantastic Black Friday dive 👉🏼🌲🎄🌲🐿️. Epic viz, had fun watching the tiny shrimp and skeleton shrimp 🦐, dive buddy saw an octopus 🐙 and ratfish. Tons of nudis, some perch and a rockfish by the golf ball boat. Moon and cross jellyfish 🪼🪼🌊🤿🧁🐟🦐🐙🖖🏼 no Lumpies were found 🧐🤔🎃🐡

Great vis and light current. Highlights were a school opalescent squid curious about my video lights, an octo, a very large stubby squid, and a bay pipefish.

There is a group of sea lions hanging off the point, I was visited by one, only brief flyby, but it kept all the rockfish close to the wall, so no schools hanging out as usual. Red Irish Lord, couple small Lingcod. Hordes of Dock shrimps and Spot prawns. Heavy overcast made the scene gloomy.

Late afternoon/evening dive. Visibility continues to be great. Highlights of the dive were an all red cabezon, 2 pipefish, a 1/2 inch PSL, ratfish and a red octopus.

Great vis at T Dock away from the usual shallow fresh water halocline. Could see all the way through the dome from the block structure below it. Some nice rockfish, one wolfie in the dome and lots of giant pink stars. Big school of silvery tubesnouts around the pilings along with a few rats. Plainfin Midshipman in the shallows. All three puget sound cormorant species and a loud kingfisher on the pilings. Water temps below 50 deg, winter diving is definitely here!

1st dive 1330, 2nd dive 1530, calm surface with a little current running NE to SW. Vis is a bit stringy at depth but otherwise very good, can still see the surface buoy at ~45 ft towards the boat saw a few shy rat fish, squid eggs still on the buoy line, lots of frosted and red-gilled nudi in the shallows at the deeper tire reefs there were many gunnels hiding, one small GPO, and two greenlings on egg duty

Lots of Wolf Eels, numerous Octos, a myriad of nudis. Did both north and south walls. Fun dives!

Three GPOs, some big Lings, so maybe mating season is near. schools of Tubesnouts, one in shallows close to entry, another at the end of jetty, deeper. YOY rockfish, no big schools of rockfish . Lost my knife, red color, lanyard probably slipped/ broke off the end of pressure gauge hose.