Outside Grouse is a ⭐ highly recommended (check conditions) boat dive in Discovery Passage. Typically, visibility here is about 28 ft (range 18–45 ft), based on 4 pnwdiving reports from 2023 through 2026. For the site briefing, see dive planning for Outside Grouse.
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Recent Visibility Reports
Dive report for 4/12/26
- Visibility
- 20 feet
Fun drift dive doing the expanse from Row and Be Damned to outside Grouse Island 🏝️🌊🤿🐙🐟🐳👑🦀🐟🐠 fantastic day five of five diving with Earl Lowe at Abyssal Diving 🤩💖🖖🏼 We saw PSKC, lovely fields of strawberry anemones 🍓🍓 and cup corals 🧡🍊, Eric saw a gpo 🐙, some cute lil rockfish 🐟🐠🐟🐠🤩
Dive report for 9/30/25
- Visibility
- 30+ feet
Dozens of abalone in the shallows! Huge mating mottled stars. Basket bryozoans! Wolfies, cabbies. Colorful and healthy reef, Puget sound king crabs, sponges and strawberry anemones all over. Really nice decorator crabs, some with strawberry anemones on them!