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Dive report for 8/6/25

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Triton Cove State Park
By Daniel Hershman
Visibility
A hazy 15 feet, 5 feet in the shallows (low tide)
A GPO, a pair of wolf eels and a bazillion squat lobsters. There quite a number of sunflower sea stars of various sizes, all doing well.
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Dive report for 8/7/25

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Triton Cove State Park
By Jade Scuba Adventures
Visibility
A muddy 10 feet (low tide)
scooted out to the point and dropped down to 35' for a survey. found 5 sunflower stars! that was the highlight. Water was warm- low 50s. vis was quite muddy, but 10ish foot with lights...
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Dive report for 12/28/25

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Triton Cove State Park
By Pieter Booth
Visibility
A hazy 15-20 feet, 20+ feet in the shallows (high tide)
Great site. My first dives there. Very easy entry. Park on the grass area near the boat launch and enter using the boat launch. Lots of structure, short walls. Shallow dive. max. depth 45 fsw. several GPOs and severl more dens. Rockfish were all hiding in the rocks (a wellnamed fish family, I suppose). 41 degrees surface (halocline) and 45 degress at depth.
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Dive report for 1/20/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By frays-chunk-waltz
Visibility
A hazy 15-20 feet, 15 feet in the shallows
47F in the shallows, 49F at depth. Dive 2's visibility dropped during a gentle flood, as the eddy brought inner cove waters to the outer cove. Dive 1 had one GPO under an ecoblock. Dive 2 along the ledge yielded four GPO, including our favorite GPO-in-a-hole at 15 ft. Copper YOY rockfish in one of the dens. Nice black and white Buffalo Sculpin. A coaster-size sunflower star on dive 1, one side-dish and one serving-platter on dive 2.
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Dive report for 1/29/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Daniel Hershman
Visibility
A clear 20+ feet, <5 feet in the shallows (high tide)
Brown muck at the surface but great viz below 10’. Lots of nudis, several wolf eels and octopus. Many juvenile sunflower seastars as well. A bit chilly at 49 degrees.
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Dive report for 2/5/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Hilary Rose
Visibility
A hazy 15-20 feet, 5 feet in the shallows (low tide)
Once we cleared the terrible vis for the first 10 or so feet, it cleared up to 20 or s at 30-40 feet. My buddies saw a couple of wolf eels and a GPO at the rock wall not far from the end of the boat ramp. I did find two healthy sea stars. Lots of nudis. The ramp to enter was a little slippery, so take care.
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Dive report for 2/6/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Janna N
Visibility
A clear 10-15 feet, <5 feet in the shallows (low tide)
First time diving here. Found a dive site map on Scubaboard. That helped a great deal. Dropped off gear onto cinder block wall, then parked in lower, grassy parking lot. Once below the muck (diving by braille), it opened up and we went down to about 80 feet in search of the Sea Whips. No luck. So we angled back up, heading south, to find the wall. Bingo! Lots to see there, including...(drumroll...) a Longspine Combfish! Wowzers, only the 2nd one I've seen in my lifetime. Sitting on top of the rock reef looking like a real beauty. Saw a couple of Sunflower Sea Stars (fairly small, about hand sized), a few Wolf-eel, GPO in the same den as one of the wolfies, Quillback Rockfish, and more Striped Seaperch than you could ever want, both adult and kids. Since it was low tide, the boat ramp was exposed and slippery in places, but we old geezers carefully worked our way down and up and were fine. Windy and choppy when we went in, smooth as glass when we emerged an hour later. Once out, and we needed to make a beeline for the one pit toilet up the hill, we found some lady who the county bus had dropped off an hour earlier, had locked herself with all her earthly possessions strewn out onto the floor in the facilities and was smoking weed. We finally knocked on the door and told her she needed to gather up her gear and move out of the bathroom because people needed to use it! She eventually left, but we had to air the place out because it was THICK in there. Weird encounter of the day.
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Dive report for 2/22/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Hilary Rose
Visibility
A clear 20 feet, <5 feet in the shallows (outgoing tide)
Once past 20 feet vis opened up. Spotted a few sea stars in good shape, found a tiny one about the size of a quarter! Lots of nudis, perch, black spot goby’s.
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Dive report for 2/28/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Hilary Rose
Visibility
A grimy 10-15 feet, 5-10 feet in the shallows (outgoing tide)
One GPO deep in its den. A few sun stars, lots of nudis, a couple of rockfish. An interesting site, if the vis gets better I imagine it would be very cool.
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Dive report for 3/7/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Cold Feet Diver
Visibility
A silty 10-15 feet (incoming tide)
1st dive 1300 (low tide, minimal current), 2nd dive 1500 (incoming tide, small current pushing NE out of the cove), 48F 10-15 ft vis on 1st dive, 5-10 ft vis on 2nd dive usual sea cucumbers and gobies everywhere, good amount of medium to large mating nudis and egg ribbons near the walls: sea lemons, white nudi, yellow-rimmed nudi, hudson's droid. possibly a california berthella, and 2 shag-rug nudi. a few rock fishes, 2 schools of perch, 1 slander cockscomb, 1 plainfin midshipman, 1 sunflower star (15-20 inch)
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Dive report for 4/11/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Hilary Rose
Visibility
A chunky 15-20 feet, 10-15 feet in the shallows (outgoing tide)
Vis better than expected. Clearish at the surface to 15 feet or so, very grimy 15 to 25 feet. Chunky but we could see at depth. The resident GPO was not home, but the old eel was. A couple of baby sea stars. Lots of nudis.
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Dive report for 4/18/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Hilary Rose
Visibility
30+ feet, 40+ feet in the shallows (outgoing tide)
Amazing visibility today! Have never had it that good… Nudis everywhere! Huge copper rock fish, perch, and jellyfish, did I say jellyfish!
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Dive report for 4/18/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Jimbo
Visibility
A hazy 20 feet, 10-15 feet in the shallows
Was a bit hazy at Triton. Perhaps we should have started here. Bay was full of small and large jellys. Did not see any GPOs but did find empty dens. Loads of various nuddies and a school of shiner perch so thick I thought I was in the tropics.. we were also thrilled to find a wee little lumpsucker in the shallows on our way back. Best vis and dive we have had here.
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Dive report for 4/26/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Hilary Rose
Visibility
A hazy 10-15 feet, 5-10 feet in the shallows (outgoing tide)
Visibility was very mixed. Shallow nice, then and green layer from 10 to 20 feet, then cleared up to hazy. Babyseastar! Lots of nudis, huge copper rock fish. I very large ‘pile’ of market squid eggs.
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Kyle Hamilton
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Dive report for 5/10/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Cold Feet Diver
Visibility
A snowy 10-15 feet, 30+ feet in the shallows
great vis over 30 ft in the shallows, terrible vis only 5 ft between 20 to 30 ft, then opens up again around 10-15 ft below 30 ft. highlights: 2 grunt sculpin in the sandy area, 1 sailfin sculpin in kelps, lots of plainfin midshipman in the shallows, several sunflower star
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Dive report for 5/21/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Katherine O’Leary-Cole
Visibility
A silty <5 feet, 10-15 feet in the shallows (high tide)
Working with an Open Water student so we didn’t venture much past the wall of haze at 18’. Viz was shockingly different- great in the shallows & next to impossible deeper!
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Dive report for 6/11/26

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Triton Cove State Park
By Daniel Hershman
Visibility
A hazy 10-15 feet, 5 feet in the shallows (low tide)
A wolfie, red octo and a huuuge grunt sculpin. Plus lots of yellow-lined and white berthella. A number of sunflower seastars both juvenile and adults.
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