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Dive report for 8/30/25

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Tacoma Pipeline
By Jade Scuba Adventures
Visibility
A silty 15-20 feet, 5 feet in the shallows (outgoing tide)
For a "average at best" divesite in the shallows... we did see many creatures. Tons of creatures hanging out in the rocks and sugar wrack kelp. We only went down to 60' and not all the way to the pipeline, but the rock line over the pipeline makes navigation easy and provides shelter for so many creatures. Nudibranchs: Dirona albolineata, Taylor's Seahare, Tritonia festivia, Hermisenda opalescence, white and orange tipped nudibranch, red flabelina. Sea stars: mottled, ochre, leather, striped sun, vermillian. Anemones: giant plumose, short plumose, tube, swimming. 1 year old giant pacific octopus. Algaes: bull kelp, sugar wrack kelp, turkish towel, eel grass, sea lettuce. Fish: great sculpin, scaleyhead sculpin, co turbot, rock sole, sanddab, striped sea perch, shiner perch, tubesnouth, brown rockfish, Crabs: dungenes, red rock, black eyed hermit, northern kelp.
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Dive report for 10/18/25

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Tacoma Pipeline
By Jade Scuba Adventures
Visibility
20+ feet (incoming tide)
Excellent visibility throughout the water column. Water temps were nice as well right in the 50° range. At about 140 feet while I was sleeping I had a small group of 3 inch market squid. I was absolutely shocked to still have daylight penetrating down on the pipeline all the way to the end of it. At 140 feet there was very little daylight but at 120 feet. It was still quite nice.
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Dive report for 3/5/26

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Tacoma Pipeline
By frays-chunk-waltz
Visibility
A silty 15 feet, 20 feet in the shallows (low tide)
Predicted tides at Tahlequah modeled our dives better than Dalco Passage currents. Dalco showed a small double-bump of floods mid-day in a day of otherwise big current. First dive, we had a strong current running northwest as we headed down to the bulkhead anchoring the yellow buoy. Fog banks of suspended silt surounded us. A low-effort second dive coincided with the low at Tahlequah. A freshwater eddy along the pilings sent us back to the entry site. 47 - 49F. Most creatures wisely hunkered down and out of sight. A single (!) Shiner Perch in the lee of a plumose anemone. A sizeable leafy hornouth snail. Gargantuan shaggy mouse nudibranchs in the pilings.
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Dive report for 5/8/26

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Tacoma Pipeline
By Jade Scuba Adventures· Dive #2516
Visibility
A chunky 10-15 feet (outgoing tide)
descent vis, handful of nudies on the line down to the pipeline. nothing specifically notable, but still a nice dive.
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