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Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Titlow Beach
A great place for artifact hunting, Titlow Beach offers pilings, walls and crevices to explore. Make sure you see the pillars of white sea anenomes on the posts. Fantastic. Pacific Octopus are known to be around as well!
Set up equipment on picnic tables and walk down a hill to the beach.
Titlow Beach is also known as 6th Avenue Dock.
Titlow is found on the shores of the Tacoma Narrows. Head North on Highway 16 from I-5 in Tacoma as if you are heading to Gig Harbor. Just before the ol' Galloping Girdy (The nickname of the previous bridge span-- look it up on the Internet!), exit and take a left on Jackson Ave. Turn right on 6th Street, and wind your way down to the park.
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Scott Van Hoosen
Oct 14, 2001, 12:00 AM
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Skill level: Easy. Titlow Beach is a fun, easy dive in Tacoma, WA. There was a ferry dock here, but all that is left are two rows of pilings. They are completely covered with white plumose anemone, and are very beautiful. This site is abundant with life, including crabs, starfish, sunflower stars, alabaster nudibranchs, kelp, sculpin, a few lingcod, and occasionally octopus. I've also seen one small female wolf eel off to the left (south). The facilities at this site include a nice deck with benches to gear up on, a couple of tables, and an outdoor shower for rinsing equipment post-dive. It's a short walk to the beach, where you enter the water. Straight out and slightly to the right, you'll see the two rows of pilings. Off to the right, there are a few pilings, and I've heard there are some bottles way out to the right, but I've never checked. Off to the left, there are a few very low walls, where I spotted the lone female wolfie. The pilings lie in 25 to 30 fsw, while the walls to the left are in about 30 to 40 fsw. Dive this site around slack times. Use tides for The Narrows in Tacoma, then adjust them per tables in the book Northwest Shore Dives.
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