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Fort Worden / Port Townsend Marine Science Center is a east-facing shore dive in North Puget Sound.

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Dive report for 5/25/26

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Fort Worden
By Glenn Grant· Dive #1264
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A hazy 15 feet, 10-15 feet in the shallows (high tide)
Solo dive to test gear. Surprisingly clear and calm, given the recent algae bloom and current predictions. Fort Worden currents have been hard to predict, so this dive was interesting because it was the slackiest slack for the entire dive. Entered the water at 1138 at a predicted flood going into ebb. Maybe a slight flood current on entry, but the rest of the dive was very slack. Pt Wilson (0.6 mi NE) predicted slack at 1253, Marrowstone Pt prediction (1.1 mi NW) predicted slack at 1129. Point Hudson subordinate slack prediction was not available today. An intermediate, fairly flat high tide (Port Townsend) was at 1131. Not much wind. Putting it all together: Diving on a flat-ish high tide from flood to ebb, near the Marrowstone slack prediction, seems like a good bet. The Pt Wilson prediction is useless, as usual.
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Glenn Grant
Oh, and hundreds of baby flatfish on the sandy bottom in 3-6 ft of water. Very fun! Schools of anchovie-like fish around the pier, look like sand lances to me.
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Glenn Grant
The previous two dives here we found Capital One credit cards (different owners). What's the odds of that? No credit cards or cell phones on this dive, ha.
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Scuba Jess
So C 🐟🐟L about the 🍼 fish. Strange about the 💳💳 😂 🤗🌊🤿♻️🚯 thanks for cleaning up 🫧
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Dive report for 4/24/26

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Fort Worden
By Hilary Rose
Visibility
15 feet, 10-15 feet in the shallows (incoming tide)
Love equipment check dives! The water was a bit chunky, but the current at SBF, and no eddies we were able to ride the slight current back to our navigational start point at the end of the pier. Tons of nudi’s, lemons I think. Found a shaggy mouse nudi, a huge rock fish. Dive buddy spotted a red octopus! 🐙 Loads of kelp crabs.
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