Keystone Jetty is a ⭐ highly recommended (check conditions) south-facing shore dive in North Puget Sound. Typically, visibility here is about 13 ft (range 5–35 ft), based on 200 pnwdiving reports from 2021 through 2026. For the site briefing, see dive planning for Keystone Jetty.
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Recent Visibility Reports
Dive report for 7/9/26
- Visibility
- A silty 10-15 feet, 5-10 feet in the shallows (incoming tide)
School of young Yellowtail rockfish in the kelp bed, individuals laying on jetty rocks in the deeper water. One Pinto abalone. Many Heart crabs. Painted greenling guarding eggs. Oregon triton laying eggs.
Dive report for 6/27/26
- Visibility
- A hazy 15-20 feet, 5-10 feet in the shallows
Two magical dives at Keystone with Eric, Jess and Tim on a beautiful sunny June day! 🎶⛴️🥒🥪😋🗝️💎🌊🤿🐙🐙🐙🐟🦀🦐🐌🍀🌞💖🖖🏻
We saw Cracktopus 🐙, 3 baby grunts 🍼🐟🍼🐟🍼🐟, tons of tiny and giant scalyhead sculpins, massive lingcod, a lovely school of yellowtail rockfish and perch, a few black rockfish, baby and teenage Puget Sound rockfish 🐟🐟🐟
and what felt like five million nudibranchs in every color and shape! 🤩
Fred the 9th wasn't home today, but we'll find him another time! 😄
Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend! 🤗💖🖖🏻🌊
Sadly, it looks like the beginning of another barnacle infestation on some of the shallower rocks 😥
Also saw some egg yolk jellies, and baby basket bryozoans!