These photos are from Dec. 19, 2021. There was a slack in the middle of the day on a weekend that turned into a 1.5-knot max flood. Those conditions don't come up too often so I swam out from the end of Stalker Rd. for a dive. An added hazard was having to climb over all the logs that crowded the beach. I swam out about 1/2-hour before slack and when I descended, the current was still too strong to swim against. I dragged me farther into the pass and I settled down behind some boulders about 30' deep to wait for it to slow down. Visibility was around 20-30', which was less than expected for the time of year.
After about 10 minutes, the current slowed enough to start swimming around in the open. At first I stayed between 30-40' deep. At this depth there was mostly stalked kelp and clusters of plumose anemones.
Eventually the current dropped enough for me to feel comfortable swimming farther from the shore and deeper down the slope. I headed down to the bottom of the pass. The bottom here was 65' deep, which is a bit shallower than either end of the pass, where it dips down to at least 80' deep. I found it strange that the boulders down here seemed much more bare than the rocks up shallower.
I headed back up the slope to the 30-40' depths, where there seemed to be the most life and colour.
There had been several boats speeding through the pass throughout the dive, but for about half of the dive there was a loud rumbling sound that I assumed was a tug slowly pulling a log boom. As I was heading back in the shallows, it seemed like there was a dark shadow over me. When I looked up I could see the log boom being towed along.
