Typically, visibility here is about 20 ft (range 8–45 ft), based on 33 pnwdiving reports from 2021 through 2026.
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Dive report for 7/19/26
- Visibility
- A clear 40+ feet (outgoing tide)
Come on. Serious. We dropped our south dive bouy in 60 fsw and could see both the bottom, line and weight/ball from the surface. We all knew it was gonna be good, and it was.Highlights were schools of perch, thick thick swarms of baby shrimp, sail fin sculpin, decorated war bonnet, wolfies and plenty of Lings. The vis was like being in the tropics, the boat did not get washed, she must dive again tomorrow.
Dive report for 7/12/26
- Visibility
- A chunky 40+ feet, 30+ feet in the shallows (incoming tide)
Two dives here today with EPIC vis. You always know you are in for a great day when you pull up to the mooring buoy and you can see all the plumose below clear as day. Vis was over 50 feet below 70 feet, and really good in the shallows too (35+). There was some erratic current here today with the huge exchanges, but all very manageable and the current died off on the western reef. This site is so gorgeous in great vis and lots of sunlight in the water!
What we saw: Hermissenda opalescens (horned or opalescent nudibranchs) EVERYWHERE. This happens most years here, but the are much larger this year. And of course a couple of wolf-eels, plenty of lingcod that survived "lingcod season" (thank goodness), copper rockfish galore (along with brown, quillback, and yellowtail cousins), columns of majestic plumose, blackeye gobies, painted greenlings, and even a Pacific spiny dogfish fly-by (always cool). My dive buddy thought it might be a six-gill, so for his benefit I am referring to it a highly anorexic six-gill. Plenty of evidence of GPOs about by all the red rock crab kills, but they are all well hidden as the broadleaf kelp and sea lettuce are in full bloom and consume the bottom.