Any Wreckers Dive Puget Sound?

[Juls64]

or anywhere in the Washington State area?

Just wondered how it compares to our temps (seems warmer there) and vis (ours seems better). I read posts by Uncle Pug and others and it seems so cool to see Wolf Eels and Giant Octopus. To dive the walls there.

Being a poor diver who doesn't get to travel often, I don't know if I'll get there or not. Its on my to-dive list though, and pretty high up.

Juls

 

[CD_in_Chitown]

I just moved here from the Great Northwest. The water temps are mid-upper 40s in the winter and get up to low 50s in the summer, they are comparable but do not swing quite as much as the lake does, or so I'm told of the lake.

The sea life is incredible, the GPOs, the wolfeels, occasional six-gills in the summer, not to mention the plethora of shellfish and invertebrate life. If I was going to plan a trip out I would shoot for Nanaimo or Campbell River, BC, or out along the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Neah Bay, WA which is basically at the mouth where the Strait meets the pacific. There is tons of great diving all around the sound and any chance to experience it should not be missed. If you get your choice, I'd choose one of those three.

Chris

 

[Juls64]

From everything I've read, it does seem awesome!

 

[BuoyantC]

Juls64
I got to dive there a few years ago while travelling through. We dived at Edmonds in an U/W preserve there. It was a very easy shore dive with a shop just a block down the street for fills etc.
This was late August and water temps then were in the low 50's. It was our first cold salt water dive so load up on lead! Very different scenery, awsome. Wished we'd had a chance to do more and eventually we'll go back.
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Dennis