About 10 - 15 feet visibility at Wall Beach last night. :depressed:
Divegoose
Divegoose
Victoria Vis conditions?
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MarkH
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Great at the Sooke Potholes today. -Maybe 40'.
Estimate around 30 feet of visibility at the big wall at Madrona this morning. Vis got better as we went deeper.
Divegoose
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I was diving at Albert Head yesterday morning. The vis was ok maybe 15 to 20' at the best. Lots of kelp from near the shore to 19' then sand bottom after that. I saw a nice 6" Nudibranch and a snake-like fish about 12" long and orange. Lots of Jelly fish. It was fun.
ScoobyDo
ScoobyDo
Ogden Point Breakwater ... 5-10' on Sat June 20 late morning. Lots of classes in the water, almost not even worth the effort.
MarkH
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In the last 18-or-so years of diving I've only ever quit a dive twice because of bad visibility. Today was the 3rd time. Visibility was the worst I have ever seen it in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. I was trying to dive in the Secretary Island area (near Sooke). I could barely see my knees when I looked back so I'd say visibility was around 3 feet. At 10' deep, it was too dark to see the kelp I kept swimming into and 15' deep it was black like a night dive. Since the Strait of Juan de Fuca doesn't have that Strait of Georgia thing where there's a layer you can get under into clearer water, I didn't bother trying to blunder my way deeper.
Did a solo dive at Ogden Pt breakwater June 28th. Vis was awful. Like diving in split-pea soup. 5' at best, and dark like a night dive. One the upshot, did manage to shine the light on a plethora of nudis, that always makes me smile.
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I just heard Seattle is have the same experience. All this sunshine is spoiling our vis.
MarkH
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At Willis Point today, visibility was a decent 15' in the shallows. Below about 60' deep, visibility was around 30'. My max depth was 120'. There were lots of white particles floating around at the deeper depths.
Dove at the Tsartlip First Nation "Boat Ramp" on Saanich Inlet today for the first time, ever. Vis was 20' in the shallows between the boat ramp and the little point to the left of the ramp, and maybe 25' or so going deeper (max depth 100' today). No jellies to speak of, found a good size octopus in its den and more importantly ... 2 medium sized sunflower stars (hopefully they're starting to come back after the recent die-off).
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