Alki Fishing Reef - Bathymetry Image

This images show the Alki fishing reef.  This is a popular dive site in West Seattle and is easily accessible by scooter or boat.  The reef is full of life and due to the large boulders used to create the reef there are plenty of hiding places for large marine life.

The image was created using Global Mapper and Bathymetry Data from NOAA.

Dive on Target 420 - 200' in Lake Washington

Lake Washington Sailboat 30's era from Dan Warter (DCS Films) on Vimeo.

A target located by Ben Griner of Puget Sound Divers (www.pugetsounddivers.com) Target 420.

A 45 foot 30's era wooden sailboat.

Divers:
Erik Foreman
Patrick Mendiuk
Dan Warter (video)

Side Scan of FG-1D Corsair debris field in Lake Washington

This image shows the location of the FG-1D Corsair in Lake Washington.  Located just off shore with access from shore for divers this site is primarily a debris field.  Most of the artifacts associated with this plane remain scattered throughout the debris field and while a popular dive site the notoriously poor visibility of Lake Washington has protected this wreck.

 

Underwater Forest in Lake Washington

The below image is of an area listed as an underwater forest.  Most of these areas contain cut timber that sank during early logging efforts along the lake and can often be found where log booms were stored for shipment.  While most of the timber in this image has been cut you can still see shadowing from standing or partially standing trees.

Wreck of the passenger steamer Falcon in Lake Washington

This image is of the passenger steamer Falcon resting in 200' fresh water in Lake Washington.  This steamer last served on Lake Washington as a passenger ferry.  It is unknown how it came to rest on the bottom but the wreck does appear to have been stripped of anything valuable prior to sinking.

Side scan data of Leschi wall in Seattle

This image is of a popular training site in Lake Washington.  Access is from shore between the swimming dock at Madrona Park.  This site has many rock faces and drops quickly from 70' to 205'.  The erosion channel you see is just to the north of the speed warning buoy.  To the south the bottom becomes sediment slopes at around 180' but to the North rock face continues to 200' before becoming a flat mud landscape.  With rare days of ambient light below 70', very silty rock face and bottom, rapid drops, and vertigo inducing water color this makes for a very good technical diving training site. 

New Wreck found in Lake Washington

This image is of Target 420.  It is located in 200' of fresh water and is in the area where we are looking for a historically significant wreck.  Despite a close pass with a towfish in the top image the shadow is not as strong as hoped.  There is clearly deck structure but the layout is not fully clear.  The image is showing a hard roof remains intact and is reflecting strongly.  Significant erosion at the stern is evident from the gently lake currents moving the mud. 

The other two images were taken to show other structural components.  The second image shows a hull shape similar to a large sailboat and the bottom image shows what may be a mast that has collapsed forward.

Cannery Tender Debris Field

The below side scan image was taken to look at the debris field around the cannery tender.  This wreck appears to have struck stern first while sinking.  The large debris item behind the wreck gives a hard return but poor shadowing.  It is likely this is hull planking laying in the mud.

Wreck of the Fresno in Lake Washington

This is image is a sidescan image of the whaling ship Fresno.  The Fresno caught fire while at dock  in 1923 and was a total loss.  The ship was scuttled in 180 feet of water in Madenbauer Bay and broke apart either during the sinking or, more likely, impacting with the bottom.

This image was taken with a hull mounted transducer in rough conditions.  You can see the waves in the rocky hillside at the top of the image.

Side scan mapping of shore to PV2 Harpoon in Lake Washington