Alki Pipeline
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Three Tree Point
Excellent critter location
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Be nice to the neighbors
Salt Water State Park
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Redondo Beach
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Sund Rock
The Sund Rock Conservation Area is one of three marine reserves in southern Hood Canal that were established to protect rare natural bedrock and boulder habitats. Divers pay a $15 per car access fee at theHoodsport n' Dive shop. The shop is located past the Sund Rock dive site on the right hand side of the road in an RV park.
Sund Rock supports fish and invertebrate communities that are typically found on rocky habitats in Washington's inland marine waters. Copper rockfish are abundant at the site, and the site also supports brown, yelloweye, vermilion, black, Puget Sound and quillback rockfishes. Wolfeel and lingcod are also common at Sund Rocks as are three species of surfperches including pile perch, striped seaperch, and shiner perch. Blackeye goby inhabit much of the rock and sand interfaces throughout the conservation area. Dominant invertebrate species include giant Pacific octopus, red sea cucumber, red sea urchin, sunflower seastar, red rock crab, and squat lobster. Harbor seals can be seen foraging in the conservation area and sea ducks and sea birds may be observed within the boundaries of the conservation area.
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Day Island Wall
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Fox Island Bridge
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Skyline Wall
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Deception Pass
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Possession Point Fingers
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Keystone Jetty
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Mukilteo Oil Dock
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Edmonds Underwater Park
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Sunrise Beach park
Advanced due to current
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Alki Junkyard
In spite of its name, "the Junkyard" is a beautiful and easily accessible shore dive. The bottom is sandy and just beyond the eel grass, it slopes down to about 40 fsw before becoming a gentler slope.
At about 50 fsw, you will find a thick hawser that runs parallel to the shore. Decades ago, local divers placed discarded fishing buoys, milk crates, chains and other metal objects along the hawser. Now, many years later, the "junk" is barely visible but it has provided a wonder habitat for a variety of creatures.
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Dive Planning Notes
Except on days with very large tidal exchange, current at this location is moderate. The current tends to run south on both flood and ebb tides.
- Splash about an hour before low tide
- Take a compass bearing and swim straight out from shore. Drop to the bottom when you are past the eel grass and continue straight out
- When you find the hawser (at about 50 fsw), turn right (heading north)
- After about 15 minutes swimming along the hawser, mentally note the features around that spot
- Near the end of your dive, you may be greeted by a gentle current that returns you to the same spot on the hawser. Otherwise, just swim back to it.
- Turn left and follow a reverse compass bearing back to shore.
- With a southbound current, you should find yourself at the entry point once you get back to shore
Cove 2
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HMCS MacKenzie
This Canadian Navy destroyer was sunk by the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia in 1995.
It offers diving opportunities for novice, advanced and technical divers.
Dive Charter Operators
Ogden Point Dive Center
Rockfish Divers
Nearby Hotels
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Doug Coutts
Ralph Peterson
South Bedford Island
Check out the south east side of this island where you will find a wall covered with life. Schools of rockfish and black cod frequent the area. Look for Giant Pacific Octopus (GPOs) on the wall.
Off the southeast side of the island, you will find the wreck of the Swordfish.
We have rated this an advanced dive due to the strong currents that are found at this site.
Ogden Point Breakwater
This is a very popular site among local divers. There is convenient parking, a nearby dive shop and easy water access. The breaker makes underwater navigation simple. Follow it along, look in the nooks and crannies that are home to a variety of invertebrates as well as a few wolf eels. This is a great night dive when you may find octopuses and rat tail fish.
Powell River
Mitlenatch Island
Dinner Rock
Mermaid Cove
beautiful dive with mermaid and sea lions
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Telegraph Bay
Telegraph Bay offers a shallow dive with no current. You are bound to see the local marine life. Try using ambient lighting for your photographs at this location.
McNeill Point
McNeill Point is rich with life and an easily accessible shore dive, but only during ideal weather conditions. The entry point is a small peninsula. You can enter on the west side to explore a relatively sheltered cove or on the south-east side to explore along the shore out to the point.
Race Rocks
Race Rocks is actually several small islands. A light house sits on the largest of these islands. Built in 1860, it is the only lighthouse on the BC coast built of rock, (granite) purportedly quarried in Scotland, and topped with sandstone quarried on Gabriola Island. The Islands of Race Rocks are located just off the southern tip of Vancouver Island, about 16 km southwest of Victoria, British Columbia.