St. Andrews tide question?

[ccooper]

We're coming down to PCB July 28 thru August 3 and I was planning on diving the jetties a lot. I was hoping high tide would fall during the day so i could dive it, but it's from 2am to 7am. Any advice on the best other times for vis and current. Thanks

 

[Hetland]

The kiddie pool is almost always open, but you want water moving from the Gulf into the pass rather than the other way around.

 

[ccooper]

Looks like I didn't get lucky with the tide charts working out well with this vacation. No chance of catching high tide (unless I night dive really early in the AM), but at least I can dive late evenings and catch the tide coming in vs. going out.

 

[Tessunderwater]

St. Andrews bay is still tannic from all the rain. Yesterday high tide was midday, we splashed about an hour and a half before and had 15 to 20ft viz. there is a lot of algae on the bottom right now which if stirred up can drop viz even more. We had an hour in the water with slack tide hitting right as we were at safety stop. Dive 2 was a completely different story. Splashed about an hour and a half after slack and it was pitch black past 10 ft. Just like a night dive but with about 10 ft of viz at best and lots of particulate reflected back with the flashlight.
Conditions should improve as we enter August and if the rain will slack off.


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