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Dive report for 3/11/26

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Steep Island
By pnwdiving.com with Scuba Jess
Visibility
A clear 40+ feet
Some of the best viz I've seen at steep island! The tubeworms did not shed, as they often do. Great wide angle and macro. So fun taking 6 divers there for the first time!
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Dive report for 3/26/26

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Steep Island
By justinthedeeps
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A snowy 30+ feet (low tide)
Perfect tide (thanks to Earl🙏🏼) on this epic wall feature, sprayed with color by the turbulent thriving biosphere of Discovery Passage. The gift keeps giving to 30 metres where the scaled crabs are tucked in, and likely beyond (hmu?) 🦀
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Dive report for 4/10/26

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Steep Island
By Scuba Jess· Dive #1639 with Eric Askilsrud and Kyle Hamilton
Visibility
A grimy 5-10 feet
Tube worm city, with 💩 and poor viz today. Lots of invertebrates. Earl timed it perfectly as always! ♥️♥️ Just a taste of one small area: Cup corrals, strawberry anemones 🍓, proliferating anemones 🌸🌸🌸🌸, painted anemones 🎨 🌺, trumpet sponges 🏆, pink mouth hydroids 👄, yellow hydroids 💛, cockerels dorids 🧡, clown 🤡, baby opalescent 🍼, Red gilled nudibranch 🐌♥️, three lined nudies and more all on a bed of yellow sponge 🧽🤩!
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justinthedeeps
How deep is the photic layer? Any visocline or relief at the bottom?
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Scuba Jess
A bit better deeper near the tube worms at like 60 feet, anything about 40 feet was pretty green 💚 still an epic dive 🥰🌊 miss you both 🤗💖 🖖🏻 hope we can dive together soon 🌊🤿🐙🐟
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justinthedeeps
Dira wanted to stay on the top of that tubie ledge, even though Capt Earl briefed to keep doing down! Coaxed her down eventually 🦀
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