Typically, visibility here is about 16 ft (range 8–25 ft), based on 17 pnwdiving reports from 2021 through 2026.
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Dive report for 7/25/26
- Visibility
- A hazy 5-10 feet (high tide)
I was hoping for a little more good visibility, but I didn't get it. Two red irish lords. Tons of brown and copper rockfish out at the pipe mouth, and a good handful of kelp greenlings (one with a kelp crab leg protruding from its mouth, but it swam off before I could get a photo). Big schools of shiner perch near shore.
Dive report for 7/14/26
- Visibility
- A clear 20+ feet
Really wonderful vis at alki pipeline. So much color everywhere, and such a different dive than junkyard or cove 2. Saw a skeleton shrimp party of unreal proportions, some sculpins I need to look up, a tiiiiiny sapsucker (Vancouver?) and baby white-lined dironas on kelp. Never made it to the pipe mouth, too entranced by the macro on the algae and rocks.
