Seacrest Cove 2 is a 🔥 popular north-facing shore dive in Central Puget Sound. Typically, visibility here is about 18 ft (range 5–45 ft), based on 206 pnwdiving reports from 2001 through 2026. For the site briefing, see dive planning for Seacrest Cove 2.
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Dive report for 7/4/26
- Visibility
- A silty 15-20 feet, 10 feet in the shallows
(I gotta remember that just because it's "not algae" doesn't mean it ISN'T silty, haha) lovely little dive looking for GPOs, only to stumble across a baby GPO in one of the rock piles around 30 ft. My buddies saw a ratfish or two (I missed them), but we had a striped nudi, a sea lemon, several opalescents. Plenty of copper rockfish, a couple of browns.
The opalescent squid eggs are still out and about!
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Dive report for 7/1/26
- Visibility
- A clear 15-20 feet, 10-15 feet in the shallows (outgoing tide)
Loads of critters out. Twas class so I'm only reporting what others saw, I was only watching my mates. Squids have moved on but the kelp greenling remains on the main line... Such a fatty. In the rock pile between north and south at 60. A decorated war bonnet And two small painted greenling. Ratfish on the south line. I'm sure the same ratfish swam around my daughter last sat and she held her hand out as it swam by, looked like the same mello fellow. Back to the shallows was red rock crab an kelp. I saw a few nudibranches and kelp crab hanging on. Great vis, great class, great instructor and great teammates!
Afterwards we had the same discussion as always, look, no touch. Her childish response, It was coming to me, I wasn't going to it. I had no idea about the spine being venomous, Very good to know!
Btw, be sure not to touch the ratfish, their spine is venomous!