Point Wilson is a dive site in North Puget Sound. One of two pnwdiving reports in 2023 and 2026 recorded 13 ft of visibility. For the site briefing, see dive planning for Point Wilson.
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Dive report for 7/19/26
- Visibility
- A grimy 10-15 feet
Snorkeling to test a camera and see the latest crop of bull kelp (doing good!), and get a better picture of the tides/currents at Point Wilson. Lots of small fish. Slack (ebb to flood) predicted for 1424, but was already flooding at 1400. As usual, the local slack predictions are way too late.
Dive report for 1/1/23
Per Glenn:
We sort-of dove this area. I had high hopes! We took scooters from the Marine Science Pier and just kept going north. Just south of the lighthouse, where it really starts to drop off, we turned around.
Currents got nasty toward the point. But the bigger issue was there wasn't anything to see. All the life and substrate is to the south near the pier. Near the point there was just sand and shell hash, which seemed odd to me.
I was really hoping it would mimic deception pass.
That area has some of the strongest tidal rips in Puget Sound. A bit north of there is a buoy that is often hammered by rips from the incoming or outgoing currents. I recently found out it's also one of just a few areas in Puget Sound where they're thinking of prototyping electricity generation from ocean currents, which makes sense, but that project hasn't launched yet.
All that said, I want to do it again but go farther just to see. I know there's some great kelp beds and rocks 'around the corner' north and west of the lighthouse.
Date of dive unknown