Owen Beach is a north-facing shore dive in South Puget Sound. Typically, visibility here is about 18 ft (range 13–25 ft), based on 9 pnwdiving reports from 2022 through 2026. For the site briefing, see dive planning for Owen Beach.
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Dive report for 7/7/26
- Visibility
- A chunky 10-15 feet (high tide)
Entered SE of the usual barge destination. Salt-and-pepper sea cucumbers, leather stars everywhere and more than a few vermilion stars. Rockfish in the shadows of a certain wreck, a couple of Great Sculpins.
Headed NW in search of giant nudibranchs. Small tube-dwelling anemones punctuated the expanse of salt-and-peppers. They proved to be just the right size for young giant nudibranchs to hone their deadly craft.
-Lorne
Dive report for 7/4/26
- Visibility
- A silty 15-20 feet, 10-15 feet in the shallows (low tide)
Exploratory dive as I have not been here before. It was AMAZING.
Vis was a silty 15-20 at the top of a low slack. We found the barge to the NNW around 85' and saw countless giant nudis with a couple juveniles, many cabezon (I think), mottled stars, blood stars, and many leather stars, several rock sole, tube anemone, and many other critters along the way. Tidal currents were minimal on dive 1, but they were picking up quick on dive 2 with an incoming flood. We got out just in time for all the sail boats to anchor off of the beach too!