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Dive report for 6/9/25

Dive report for 8/16/25

By Scuba Jess with Eric Askilsrud

Visibility: 15-20 feet

Greetings from Candy Land! 🍬 🍭😋 It's Dive O'clock! 🌊🤿📸 🐙🐟🍭🦐🍭🦐🐟 We had so much fun showing Debi Scheenstra the colorful reef for her first time! Candy Stripe shrimp jackpot, plus warbonnets and more. 🪸😍🍭🦐🐟 Zero current today!! 🥳 Happy Saturday! Off to Keystone next for some Key Line Pie! 🥧🗝️💎😋💖🖖🏼

Jan Kocian and Jeremy Freestone

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Dive report for 8/18/25

Hello do you have a map of where the dive site is ?

Press skyline to view the dive site, then you can get to the map. This is a tricky dive site, message me on insta or fb and we can take you some time.

Dive report for 8/27/25

C🍭🍭L! 🌊🤿🦐🐟🦈🐟🦈🐟🐟🐟🐙💖🤗🖖

Dive report for 9/12/25

Dive report for 10/14/25

Dive report for 10/12/25

Dive report for 10/25/25

By Michael P. Snow

Visibility: 10-15 feet (high tide)

Two marvelous dives at Skyline yesterday taking advantage of the small exchange. We saw small octopuses out in the open both dives, several juvenile wolf eels (including one in the open), candy-stripe shrimp, two Red Irish Lords, a couple of sparkling shrimp back in a crack, a white-spotted greenling guarding eggs, and a big GPO in a den down at 75'. It's been awhile since I've seen a GPO at Skyline. The kelp is looking old and the orange sea cucumbers are fewer and closing up. Winter is coming.

Jan Kocian and Scuba Jess

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Also note that Mike spotted an abalone(!) that I failed to recognize, even in my photo. There were 4-5 juvenile wolfies in crevices in 1 small grotto, all within 10' of each other. And a nice red dendronotus. And so much more!

Dive report for 11/21/25

Dive report for 12/9/25

Dive report for 2/1/26

By Bill Bergschneider

Visibility: A silty 10 feet, 5-10 feet in the shallows

First time at Skyline, lot's O current but mighty fine. Dropped at about 1:37pm. Probably 10 to 15 too early. Incredible sight but yes, more advanced. I would not recommend going there without someone that had been there before. I was blessed to have 2 veteran Skyliners. Current did not drop until far into return home. Much of the dive was a hold on situation. Still a great time at a beautiful spot. Many nudi, 2 wolf eel. Fun chilling in the eel grass on the way back.

Jan Kocian, justinthedeeps and 2 others

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I am seeing a 14:53 slack on the NOAA model for Feb 1. Which predictions/targets were you all following? https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaacurrents/predictions?id=PUG1738_23&begin_date=2026-02-01&t=24hr

The tables I am using show that you went in at max flood Rosario Strait, Washington Current February 2026 48.4583° N, 122.7800° W 2026-02-01 13:35 PST 0.50 knots Max Flood 2026-02-01 14:10 PST Full Moon 2026-02-01 15:15 PST -0.00 knots Slack, Ebb Begins

Bill Bergschneider

I will check with my friends that planned and report back. Thank you both

Dive report for 2/14/26

Dive report for 3/16/26

By Ross Jorgensen

Visibility: A hazy 10 feet, 10-15 feet in the shallows (high tide)

NOAA predicted slack was 3:09, actual slack started around 3:30 with a 1.3 to -1.6 current change. I splashed at 2:35, got to the kelp at 2:50 and dropped immediately. Perfect timing. Slow drift out, fake slack, quick final gasp of flood and then mega slack. Almost had to swim back even with an almost 90 min dive. Standard Skyline vis, a little better and worse at times depending on location. The reef is in fantastic shape. All the sponges, cucs were feeding, lots of Stimpson Sunstars and blood stars. Mega nasty heart crab. Huge RIL. Good nudi diversity, highlight being mating groups of Robilliards Dendronotids. No candies but plenty of homes with Kincaid Shrimp so hopefully later this year they are back. The shallow proliferating anemones below the gazebo were looking great and will need some camera time on a sunny day.

Michael P. Snow, Nate Cermak and 2 others

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Fantastic update 🤗🌊🤿🐟🐙🦀🍭🦐💖🤩🖖🏽

Dive report for 3/28/26

By Michael P. Snow

Visibility: 10 feet

Slack was supposed to be at 1048 today and then turn back toward the entry. Apparently the universe did not get the memo 'cause the current just kept going away from the entry our entire dive: not strong, but mild to moderate -- enough that we turned the dive early. No young kelp yet, but we did see mating Heath's dorids, Nanaimo dorids, and Oregon tritons. I expect we'll see more life on the wall as spring progresses. Highlights of the dive were several clown nudibranches, a Cockerell's dorid, a heart crab, and a couple of juvenile wolf eels: 22 species on my REEF survey.

justinthedeeps, Jan Kocian and 2 others

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Dive report for 4/9/26

Dive report for 4/12/26

By Justin Warner

Visibility: 5-10 feet

Really poor vis on the afternoon Skyline late ebb dive. But it wasn’t the waters’ fault. Was there two days ago diving same exchange and it was pretty nice 12-15ft vis. But today ALL the orange sea cucumbers (thousands) and some of the blood stars were spawning. It was kind of cool but hard to see much else in the dark bad vis current-y conditions.

pnwdiving.com, Scuba Jess and 2 others

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Dive report for 4/25/26

Agreed.

Dive report for 4/26/26

Visibility: A silty 15-20 feet, 20+ feet in the shallows (high tide)

Visibility was about as good as it ever gets at this site. Solid 20'+. We explored out to the southwest point where the wall turns north along Washington Park. found a new section of reef that is absolutely stunning. With over 300 dives at this site I have somehow never seen this area before. Depth at high tide was 75 feet. Rock columns and deep undercuts with a massive school of Yellowtail Rockfish hanging around. Also including some of the biggest Black Rockfish I've ever seen. The topography, the resident rockfish and the usual accoutrement of Skyline reef beauty, makes this area one of the prettiest sections of this fantastic site.

justinthedeeps, Justin Warner and 2 others

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Wow!

I’ve been to this area. The ledges. Used to have some large adult wolf eels too. It’s been a few years since I’ve gone far enough out to this place though.

Dive report for 5/11/26

Dive report for 5/12/26

Visibility: A silty 10-15 feet, 10 feet in the shallows

Great dive and timed slack perfectly. We were able to ride a light current pretty far out into the channel - I hadn't been that far out in a while. The viz wasn't too bad for Skyline especially as we went further out. The first part of the way was just absolutely littered with buffalo sculpins. We had to go a kind of far before we started seeing crimson anemones. We were mostly coming up blank, but finally found one with the world's tiniest candy-striped shrimp so we at least got to see one. We also found a three-lined aeolid which was a neat find. On the way back in we came across a huge Puget Sound King Crab - this is the first one I've ever seen at Skyline. One of my favorite dives here.

Ross Jorgensen, justinthedeeps and 3 others

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Great find with the PSKC, the big ones have been scarce there the last few years.