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Point Whitney is a north-facing shore dive in Hood Canal.

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Dive report for 5/14/26

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Point Whitney
By Jade Scuba Adventures· Dive #2534
Visibility
A silty 30+ feet (incoming tide)
Visibility was excellent throughout the water column with a thin layer of gunk that dropped vis to about 10' or so. Otherwise, it was beautiful all the way down in the sea whips. We enjoyed the little red octo at depth as well as a handful of flatfish before ascending to the pipeline and enjoying a chill dive over the next hour and a half working our way up the pipeline. We had tons of life out there today! red octopus, giant pacific octopus, giant pink star, fish eating star, leather star, sunflower star, mottled star, painted greenling mating, striped seaperch, shiner perch, tubesnout, muscles, brown rockfish, copper rockfish, red rock crab, northern kelp crab, a few different decorator style crabs, giant plumose anemone, short plumose anemone, sea whips, giant sea cucumbers, white sea cucumbers, nanaimo dorid, northern leopard dorid, noble sea lemon, white lined dirona, golden dirona, orange and white tipped nudibranch, Price's aeolid (?), Hermissenda crassicornis, Tritonia festivia, sargassum, sugar wrack kelp, eelgrass, dock shrimp, stilleto shrimp, mysids, giant sea spider, sea gooseberry, fried egg jelly, tailed jelly, (another three species I don't know names for of), and much more I'm forgetting... such a great dive with a massive density of life today as well as great visibility. Always lovely geting to just hang out and take our time down the pipeline Seawhip field starts at 105' straight out from pipeline and goes both ways to about 200' or so. Water temp 49F at depth, 55F above 30'. CCR Dive, Decompression planned.
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Dive report for 5/11/26

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Point Whitney
By frays-chunk-waltz
Visibility
15-20 feet (high tide)
One dive on a mild incoming, the second just past high slack. Vis stayed 15+ ft, except for clouding up the shallows as the ebbing waters picked up speed. 48 - 56F. First dive was pipeline-less, much to the amusement of the squat lobsters populating the cobble. On the second dive, the pipe in the 70 ft range sported a robust collection of hairy and peanut sea squirts (B. villosa and S. gibbsii). A chunky Northern Ronquil brazened our lights on our way back up the pipeline. Teacup-saucer sunflower star in the cobble, two dinner-plate ones on the pipeline - 40 & 70 ft.
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