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Edmonds Underwater Park

Review #46
William Abbott (scuba at oregonfirearms dot d2g dot com)
January 15, 2003
Location: Edmonds, WA USA  
Dive Type: Salt Water Facilities: Changing Rooms Showers Parking
Hazards: Ferry
Entry: easy shore Surface Swim: medium
Difficulty: novice Typical depth: 30
Dive site rating: 9 Max depth: 40
This site is a protected marine preserve
Dive site description:
Very nice site, lots to see. Did 4 dives here over 2 days including one night dive. Saw Lingcod and Cabazon anywhere from 3feet long to over 5feet long. At night we saw kelp crabs among other daytime critters. Durring the dives we saw Cabazon, Perch, Rockfish, Lingcod, Nudibranchs, hermit crabs, plumose anemone (MILLIONS), shrimp, and other typical rocky reef critters

This site is great for begginers or more experienced divers. Theres TONS to see here, and many people have never even been north of the small rock outcropping.

There is a map of the park and the sites on the wall of the changing rooms. The sunken dry dock and Triumph are the 2 main features. We weren't able to make the Triumph and be ready for a LONG swim to get to it. If you dive at the dry dock be sure not to go on the Ferry side of it, it carries a heafty $15,000 fine if you impeede the ferry. Currents are pretty minimal here, if dove at high or slack tide. With the exchange current can be felt but is light unless there is a high exchange. Max depth is supposed to be around 30feet, however at high tide we reached about 40-47feet. At low tide it can be VERY low, on our low tide night dive we walked almost several hundred feet from shore, more than 1/2 way to the dry dock. Visability on average was about 10-20 feet depending on wether other divers had been there already and tides.

The park can and is VERY popular so get there early to insure a parking spot.

This park is considered by some to be an extension of Oregon due to the high number of Oregon Plates on the vehicles. Enjoy your dive at Edmonds, and go back frequently it would be very difficult to ever see EVERYTHING there, not to mention the horridly long swims to get to the North end. The bottom is a very shallow slope, just remember South is the ferry, North is North, East is the Shore, and West is Puget Sound.

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