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Great first cold water dive for a new diver that joined us today! Lots of crabs, nudibranchs and flounder. Low tide start with the buoy at <10 feet depth, rock reef was found at 30 feet. Lots of crab shell remnants, but no octopus found!

Fun end of day dive at Rockaway. Viz cleared up at depth. 2 adorable otco on the deep reef, sailfin sculpin, nudi galore and a war-bonnet out in the open in all his glory!

Tried to get under the muck but 2 to3feet of viz all the way to 89 feet. Still fun. Found some rochfish, some nudis, wolf eel,and my butt with both hands:)

visibility was thick with algae in the first 25'. It opened up to 15' by the back side of Norranders Reef. juvenile Wolf eel was in it's normal crack, nudies abounded: 11 species or more! The new to me at Rockaway was the Ancula Sp. I've only seen that one at Point Whitney and Sunnyside before. The rest were ones we tend to see regularly at rockaway.

Life: Nudis galore, striped, leopard, lemon, festive, frosted tip, and longhorn or warty. Also some lovely sea stars that I'd not encountered before, yellow with blue spots. Rockfish as well, painted and kelp greenlings, and a couple sculpins also. Conditions: Buoy is small but visible, it's a grimy white football-sized thing but in good condition. The line off of it is very covered up in sea lettuce but is generally followable. If you miss it head roughly 60 degrees out from the buoy and as you get deeper it gets more visible. The deep line ended about 90 as advertised, light current on the outgoing tide from the South to the North, but after hopping to the other side of the rock pile we felt nothing. Genuinely surprised and very pleased with the macro life here, highly recommend for folks looking for that.

From @littlebrrmaid... 7:45 splash, 90 ft max depth, minimal current, 49°, 10 ft snowy vis What Did We Sea? Cocknerells Dorids, Pacifica ancula, multicolor dentroids (purple + white), baby wolf eel, baby red eyed Medusa, baby flatfish

Rainy PNW day with beautiful dive conditions. Made it to the second reef and did a few laps there. Fairly empty reefs today…where did all the fish go?! Starfish conference being held at the first reef. Nudis in the shallows were beefy lil fellas.

Crystal clear visibility for our son’s first cold water dive! Lots of nudis today. Didn’t make it out to the reef- took it slow in the shallows to 40 feet.

Mild southbound current, but we circled the main reef twice. Lingcod on eggs, Red Irish Lord on eggs, Kelp Greenling on eggs... notice a pattern? :) Also two juvenile Wolfeels in small cracks next to each other - the one is getting pretty big, but is still a beautiful red color, the other is still pretty small. A handful of nudis, including Red Gills, Leopard Dorid, one of the big yellow Dorids (I can never keep them straight), and a beautiful nice sized Pink Tritonia. The main reef is absolutely carpeted with shrimp... more than I have ever seen here. Lots of cool little sea fleas and a few blade shrimp along the line to the reef.

Thousands of shrimp and thousands of tubesnouts. One mosshead warbonnet. Both of the wolf eels were gone probably looking for dinner.

Cloudy visibility throughout the water column down to 60’. Not a ton of nudies out right now, but overall lots of fishes. Great dives overall and a couple adorable tiny jellies.

Great conditions today. The algaes are dying off on the bottom and the line is easier to see again. We did two dives out here today. Second dive we scooted around the whole area. So, here's the downlow on scooting time distances: Scooter is the Dive Xtra Blacktip Tech on speed 3 for most of this. From bouy to deep reef is about 6 min (85' deep). From shallow end of Norrander's Reef (40') heading south-maintaining 40'- it is 7 minute scoot to Metridium Wall. From the cinder block on the line at 27' (high tide) heading due north, Warbonnet Rock is about a 1-1.5 minute scoot. From the shallow end of Norrander's Reef, there is another small rock structure about a 30 second scoot due south. Hope this helps someone plan their dive and go discover more of the structure at this great dive site!

Reports of 20' at Norrander's today

Water was clear to 12-15 feet then hard to see past large particulate. I was snorkeling for the most part so don't know what visibility was at deeper depth>20ft is but I suspect similar if not better. Get out there while the sun is still out:)

2 great dives at The Rock. 4 small GPO, 2 Juvi wolfie. War Bonnets O' plenty and if you didn't see at least 50 nudi, you dove with your eyes closed.

Lots of red gilled nudies and Dirona albolineata on the sugar wrack kelp. pretty nice visibility, so nice dive overall :)

Great visibility and tons of creatures! octopus, two young wolf eels, 3 mosshead warbonnets, 9 species of nudibranch, 4 species of perch, 3 species of rockfish, 2 species of greenlings, at least 4 species of sculpin, variety of crabs, and stars as well. Lots of creatures everywhere. finding the line at the beginning is tough with all the thick algae. Great dive!

A quick trip around the shallow reef on a great tide with my 15 y.o. #bubblesallyear month 12. Crabs, lobster, starfish, cucumbers, anemones, nudis. Layer of snot on top, with haze. Clearer deeper, and on the outside of the reef.

Tons of nudis, juvenile wolf eel, decorated warbonnet, schools of perch and pipefish

Good dive, viz and low tide notwithstanding. I spotted a dogfish, and my buddy found a decorator crab that hadn’t accumulated any decoration. Oh, and there’s a juvenile wolf eel that wasn’t there before.

Still a fun dive with some current and less than 5 feet of viz at Rockaway. Nudi city and juvi wolf eel. Cleared off the line for the next group of divers as it was disappearing in kelp. Thank you dive buddy Alex. No nudis were harmed in said line clear yet it did piss off a kelp crab or 12. :)

Two dives today. The earlier on (splash around 10am) had lower visibility (about 8’) and was a low tide turning to an incoming tide. Nudies weren’t everywhere, but still a descent showing of nudies with a gathering of Dendronotus albus in the feather hydroids on the short rocks in the wide path between sections of the reef. Also we had an octopus amputee: it was a small GPO with 2 arms and 6 nubs instead of arms. Second dive was later in the day with a splash time near 1pm. Visibility had increased with the incoming tide. shallow vis was still poor (5-8’) but as you got past 15’, it opened up to 15’ or more. The reef had a number of nudies still, but not a great showing- about 6-8 species during this dive.

Visibility was the best I've seen in days out here! We are very surprised as to how great it was. The nudibranchs were out in force as well. We had 11 different species of nudies today to show Chris on his first Rockaway dive. The line is well buried by kelp leaves on the bottom and the red algaes that are attached to it. Pay close attention, or you will loose it... There are a few saragassum plants in the 15' range with squid eggs attached to them as well.

Made it out to the cinder block, cruised around a bit, then called it off there - too easy to lose track of someone. Water temp was 54 degrees.

My first time diving bainbridge island. There was a lot of seaweed, not too much life on the reef, but we did see lots of janolus nudibranchs, some rockfish, one juvi Wolf eels, and a gpo in a crack. It's hard finding the reef, it's pretty narrow

Vis was terrible, but creatures were still out. Great dive on the reef, but it wasn't so easy to see everyone. dive lights were great for keeping the team together today.

many varieties of nudibranch (8 or so species). many large white and orange tipped nudibranchs on the south side of the wall. The juvenile wolf eel and GPO are still hanging out in their rock. It was nice to see the visibility improved again and was an excellent night dive again!

Hi. Somebody found a knife at Rockaway Beach. If that was you leave a note here and we can connect you to the person who found it.

Great viz all the way down. Sunlight visible at perhaps 60, surface waves visible at 40. Not much life, but a very relaxing dive.

Visibility wasn't that great, but the nudibracnhs were out in force. It was my first time seeing sandlewood dorids at this site and also Armina californicas. In addition, we had orange and white tipped nudibranch, northern leopard dorid, cockerell's dorid, monterey dorid, nanimo dorid, monterey dorid, Dendronotus dalli, jannas dorid, and heaths dorid. a GPO has moved into the crack infront of the juvenile wold eel. Plenty of life.... better vis would've been ncie, but still an excellent dive

Did a dive at rockaway Sun morning. Had 1 GPO in a different spot than previously (maybe a second on the reef?), baby octo, baby wolf eel, and a cormorant did a flyby at 50ft.

One small Pacific red octo, juvenile wolf eel, had a flyby from a cormorant at 30', and found a GPO for the first time on the reef in years. Only a handful of nudis out today.

there weren't a lot of nudies out today.. but... what there was is loads of stashes of greenling eggs! There was a ton of octo activity around, only a handful of nudies but, still a great dive and the juvinile wolf eel is back in it's crack :)

The nudibranchs weren’t out in force, but the amazing Dendronotus dalli and Dendronotus albus were in the feather hydroids in the middle of the structure. The sailfin sculpins and gunnels were out in force. It was a great dive even though it wasn’t nudi-tastic as normal.

We were a bit concerned that wind would affect our entry at this site, but we only encountered minimal surface chop that disappeared quickly as we descended. I was working with a student, so I didn't have much availability to poke into all the holes but we did see a juvenile wolf eel, another group spotted a red octo on the hunt, lots of ling cods and kelp greenlings, various nudibranchs. Always a great dive site!

Vis was steady throughout the water column from surface to 60’. Juvenile wolf eel was in the same crack it was in a month or so ago. many nudies, but average amount of species. Nanaimo dorids are back. Little octo was hanging in a hole on the side of the wall as well. Both a Dendornotus dalli and a Dendronotus albus both hanging out in feather hydroids. I think we counted about 9 species of nudies on the first dive and a few less on the second…

We had two amazing dives here on Thursday! Great visibility, calm surface, tad bit of current. Following the line to the reef, there is a very active white-spotted greenling guarding a nest (did not see the nest). On the first descent, this fish was actively biting my fins and would not leave me along!! We gave this stressed out fish a much wider berth on following ascent/dive. Tons of nudibranchs, a GPO tucked back into a crevice, all the usual suspects!

2 great dives at the Rock. Teaming with life. Juvi fish by the thousands, small schools of everything. Great nudi and a new Juvi wolf eel. Some big and small war bonnets. Great day for diving with a couple of hours under the sea/

First time there. Conditions were good, visibility was good.tide was incoming and made for a nice 2nd dive.

Great visibility today! the reef is just as I love it: full of life! there were two beautiful great sculpins out today as well. A handful of lingcod, painted greenling, and a kelp greenling as well. Cadlina sylviaearlae, noble sea lemon, ring spotted dorid, heath's dorid, monterey dorid, white lined dirona, striped sea perch, shiner perch, kelp perch, lingcod, kelp greenling, painted greenling, great sculpin, kelp crab, red rock crab, helmet crab, ochre star, blood star, armpit blood star, mottled star, blood star, leather star, swimming anemone, giant plumose anemone, sugar kelp, stiletto shrimp, threespine shrimp, dock shrimp,

young wolf eel swimming over the reef, 8 species of nudibranch, lots of fishies. Great dive with great buddies

Another fun dive at the Rock. Afternoon splash. Many nudis, and even a clown at the end. Baby opalescent was a fine find. The rockfish have returned and were in many stages young and old. Mild current going out and nice push coming back. No finning needed:) Still and always will love this spot!

visibility ... well, it sucked! had a 25' report from yesterday and found something completely different! Odd currents today as well. We were doing skills at the end of the line to the primary reef... Got pushed around pretty well. It wasn't in the same direction consistently or a turn of a current picking up. It was almost as if a tug or ferry was sitting nearby and changing their engines to thrust the water different directions. It wasn't surge either going back and forth... it was pulling us away from shore, towards the reef- then a few minutes later it'd pull sideways, then a few minutes later away form the reef towards the shore. Hopefully the 25' vis from yesterday comes back quickly.

Lingcods guarding eggs, be careful, they are spicy.

Yet another fun day at the Rock. Decent viz. Juvi wolfie on deep being harassed by udles of shrimp. Literally blankets of shrimp. 3 ling cod egg cluster but no one home on the guard??? Nudi o plenty large and small . At least 6 species. Did I mention tons of shrimp?

Moderate visibility. Nudie central. Barnacle eating dorids are mating in force- tons out there and in bunches creating egg ribbons. Another barnacle shell filled with tiny eggs. Lingcod egg mass, and a few egg ribbons from noble sea lemons as well.

Pretty good visibility here on Friday. Saw tons of nudibranchs!

Fun dive at the Rock with buddies Alec and Austin. Went out to deep reef. Typical cast of characters with nudis galore. Star nudi for me was a clown at deep. Yes, he was scary, I believe I saw him holding a red balloon :). Couple of juvi wolf eels. Just a nice, cold dive!

nudie variety show! 12 types of nudibranchs per dive. Pretty awesome seeing such an excellent variety in one dive! vis was dropping throughout the day at depth and improving in the shallows. wind choppy surf was 1' or less, but water was not flat. buoy was at 6' deep in the afternoon with the low tide. Did three dives between 9AM and 3PM. 38min - 49' max, 68 min - 58', 35 min - 54 min. Creatures: Tritonia festivia, white lined dirona, barnacle eating nudibranch, Dendronotus albus, noble sea lemon, monterey dorid, red gilled nudibranch, Cadlina sp., Triopha catilinae, nanaimo dorid, Ring spotted dorid, red sponge nudibranch, dock shrimp, deep blade, red rock crab, pygmy rock crab, kelp greenling, lingcod, painted greenling, sculpins galore, lingcod eggs, greenling eggs, red sausage jelly, giant plumose anemone, painted anemone, short plumose anemone,

Stayed 20’ and shallower today but was happy with the vis after the wind yesterday. Had a handful of red sausage jellies in the water as well as some ring spotted dorids, white lined dironas, mottled stars, swimming anemones, smaller decorator crabs and hermit crabs… IT was perfect for a training session :)

Lots of lemon nudis on the shallow reef and shrimp down deep on norranders. Clearer in the shallows than deeper.

Clearer than usual, had a lovely dive. Saw two crescent gunnels fighting, lingcod, white lined dirona, leopard dorid, painted greenlings and a few large monterey sea lemons.

Plenty of blade shrimp and white-line dironas along the line to the rocks, a gunnel wrestling match that was fun to watch.