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Dive report for 6/21/25

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Alki Junkyard
By pnwdiving.com with Eric Askilsrud and Scuba Jess
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A silty 20+ feet, 5-10 feet in the shallows (low tide)
Ratfish, sea spiders, a grunt, a 1 cm lumpy, and I saw my first neon sea fleas here in a long time. A red one and two tan ones. Skeleton shrimp city on the eelgrass! No octos were seen by any of our six divers! 😢 Been a while since we've seen them here! No jumping opossum shrimp either.
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Dive report for 7/13/25

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Alki Junkyard
By Don Clemmer
Visibility
20+ feet, 15-20 feet in the shallows (outgoing tide)
Really nice viz at the Junkyard - it looks like the tail end of an algae bloom breaking up. The deeper you go, the better it gets. The viz in the shallows was halfway decent, although with the low tide and surge, the sand was getting stirred up a little. Lots of little egg yolk jellies plus a cute little octopus and a dog fish at about 85 ft. Lot of life in the eel grass - lots of schooling tube snouts, some nice shoals of striped and pile perch and the skeleton shrimp were very active. A fair number of nudibranchs as well. Nice to be out in nature's air conditioning.
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Dive report for 6/12/26

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Alki Junkyard
By Nate Cermak with Scuba Jess
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A snowy 15-20 feet, 5-10 feet in the shallows
I was pleasantly surprised by the visibility at depth. Tons of snow in the water column, but I could still see quite far. Lots of jellies in the water column, mostly water and moon jellies but a few egg yolks as well, and tons of ctenophores too. Saw: a pair of giant white dorids, one pink tritonia, one Palio dubia, a horned shrimp, four or five red octos, two large great sculpins, a few sea spiders, one sailfin. Plus the usual cast of rockfish, flatfish, and crabs. Seemed like a lot of boats out there today...
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Lots of striped nudies there today too! I've never seen so many! We also saw tall top jellies, and an egg yolk jelly. Cool to hear about the pink tritona!
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Dive report for 6/12/26

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Alki Junkyard
By Magellan · Dive #41
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A silty 10-15 feet, 5 feet in the shallows (outgoing tide)
really fun dive with solid vis once we got to the line. Saw a few octos, a surprisingly sizable grunt scuplin, a massive amount of striped nudibranches, and a really nice diamond back nudibranch.
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