48.1675° N, 123.7045° W
Illustrative, not for navigation
Site layout adapted from pnwdiving.com's dive-site briefing, laid over a real satellite still.
Legend
Entry — Kiosk near campsite #63, stairs to cove
Reef / rock pile
Hazard — read the note
Landmark
Site facts
Skill
Advanced — surge, kelp, weather-dependent
Current
flood ENE, ebb WNW — secondary to wind/waves here
Slack ref.
Angeles Point station (PUG1639)
Depth range
shallow bay to 20 ft+ beyond the kelp
Hazard
weather is the primary hazard here, not current
Site description
Long before it was a dive site, Tongue Point was the seaward gun platform of Fort Hayden, a WWII coastal-defense post whose 16-inch guns could throw a one-ton shell roughly 28 miles across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, backed by a second six-inch battery up on Striped Peak. The concrete bunkers still stand above the beach, but underwater that same rocky point now shelters kelp forests and wave-cut canyons inside the Tongue Point Marine Life Sanctuary. It's a demanding, surge-prone dive rather than a training site, and the tide pools spreading out from the point at low water draw nearly as much attention as anything below the surface.
Not a navigational chart. Positions are drawn illustratively from pnwdiving.com's site briefing over a real satellite still (Web Mercator, true scale) — good for orientation and dive-brief planning, not for plotting a GPS track. Features move; confirm on site. Weather (wind/waves) matters more here than current — check the Salt Creek wind/wave forecast (Windy) before relying on tide charts alone.