5 Fish That Prove Puget Sound Scuba Diving Is The Best

Scuba diving in Puget Sound is an amazing experience, and the main reason is the wide variety of marine life we have to offer. Here are 5 rock star fish (and where to find them) that make Puget Sound scuba diving so great: 1- Quillback Rockfish (Sebastes maliger) These members of the Rockfish family are…

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Giant Pacific Octopus Protect Their Eggs

  Giant Pacific Octopus on Eggs by Steve Zedekar Spring in the Pacific Northwest means that our female giant Pacific octopus are tending to their eggs. Divers can see this behavior at many of our most popular dive sites, including Redondo Beach, Three Tree Point, and Alki Seacrest Park (Cove 2). The giant Pacific octopus…

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Giant Pacific Octopus Sightings on the Rise and Seal Pup Mania

August has been an incredibly busy month for us here at Seattle Dive Tours! PADI Instructor Richard and PADI Divemasters Chris, Chen and Brian have been working hard to show all of our divers the beautiful marine life around Seattle and Puget Sound. Over in West Seattle, across Elliott Bay from Downtown, a very large…

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Scuba Diving Redondo Beach, WA

One of our Seattle Dive Tours divers, Norwegian Claes-Gøran Bye, posted this video from his recent guided scuba diving tour with us at Redondo Beach, WA. Looking at the footage, I found Giant Pacific octopus, Plumose anemone, Sunflower star, Copper rockfish, Giant barnacle, Northern kelp crab, and Spiny pinkstar. If you can identify anything else,…

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Busy Weekend of Scuba Diving!

  We had a busy weekend with scuba diving tours both Saturday and Sunday. Our Saturday tour featured two local divers plus a third diver from the United Kingdom. We also had our newest  Divemaster, David Sisson, assisting. On Sunday our tour had another 3 divers, two from Lindblad Expeditions who were on break before…

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