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Scuba Jess

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Dive report for 4/13/26

Flagpole Point

By frays-chunk-waltz

Visibility: 20+ feet (high tide)

Three dives on a mild exchange, the first midway on a 3.5 ft. flood. Still, both surface and bottom currents would push us north. Good vis maintained throughout the water column on the first dive, noticeably decreasing in the shallows on later dives. 48 - 53F. Four wolf eels looked up as we descended on the buoy line. Young fish have come back to the Canal for the season - numerous Tubesnout strolling by in the sargassum, a mixed-age Pile Perch school bobbing along, young Shiner Perch squirting past us. Five sunflower stars - mostly dollar-coin sized but up to teacup-saucer.

justinthedeeps, Scuba Jess and 1 others

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pnwdiving.com

Curious to know if you had wind pushing the water north?

justinthedeeps

Could imagine interesting countercurrents and such given all the steep topography. Are there ever up or down currents?

frays-chunk-waltz

Oddly, the wind was from the north that day, and the point blocks some of that. Second Q: I don't see Flagpole as having enough of a dropoff that it develops serious downcurrent issues on the days that I would go out there. It's only 25-35 ft from top of knuckle to adjacent seafloor.

justinthedeeps

I've gone down the wall to ~60 metres / 200ft on the outside, so there is definitely topography!

💭 Discussion about Flagpole Point -- 5/16/26

Flagpole mating octopus

By pnwdiving.com

Keith Clements got these cool giant pacific octopus photos at Flagpole recently! 😆

Seeing a giant Pacific octopus (GPO) in the open is relatively rare for PNW scuba divers. During most GPO encounters, we only catch a glimpse of these magnificent creatures burrowed safely in their den with a watchful eye on the entrance. So when I encountered this GPO out in the open - and not out actively hunting - I knew it had to have an ulterior motive. We did two dives this day over a span of about 4 hours, and this male GPO would not move more than about 3 feet from a particular rock at the base of the wall. A bit of exploring revealed why. Nestled in a den nearby was another octopus - most likely a female. It is reassuring to know another male of a species acts completely out of character and doesn't know what to do around females

Bill Bergschneider, Cold Feet Diver and 3 others

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