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Blake Island Reef

Dive site · United States

Advanced divers and up

Is it worth the trip?

64Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

Best on Sat 7: Sea: flat, Visibility under 5 m, Wind 1 kn

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Tue 3 · 64 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
4 kn
Gusts
11kn
Air
15°C

Wed 4 · 64 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
7kn
Air
14°C

Thu 5 · 63 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
7 kn
Gusts
17kn
Air
14°C

Fri 6 · 62 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
5 kn
Gusts
27kn
Air
15°C

Sat 7 · 65 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
1 kn
Gusts
14kn
Air
11°C

Sun 8 · 64 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
8kn
Air
13°C

Mon 9 · 64 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
6 kn
Gusts
12kn
Air
13°C

Tap a day for sea, wind and water. Full forecast

Forecast: next 9 days

Full forecast
  1. Mon 265, good
  2. Tue 364, good
  3. Wed 464, good
  4. Thu 563, good
  5. Fri 662, good
  6. Sat 765, good
  7. Sun 864, good
  8. Mon 964, good
  9. Tue 1064, good

The site in four facts

  • Down to 24 mits deepest
  • From a boathow you get in
  • Advancedand up
  • Faces SEswell from there reaches it

Full forecast

every day, every number

The score doesn't know currents, the visibility on the day or your certification.

Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. Scored for Advanced divers.

Sea and wind forecast and score for each day at Blake Island Reef
DayScoreSeaWindGustsAir
Mon 2Nov65, good0.0 mflat1 kn3kn13°C
Tue 3Nov64, good0.0 mflat4 kn11kn15°C
Wed 4Nov64, good0.0 mflat3 kn7kn14°C
Thu 5Nov63, good0.0 mflat7 kn17kn14°C
Fri 6Nov62, good0.1 mflat5 kn27kn15°C
Sat 7Nov65, good0.0 mflat1 kn14kn11°C
Sun 8Nov64, good0.0 mflat2 kn8kn13°C
Mon 9Nov64, good0.0 mflat6 kn12kn13°C
Tue 10Nov64, good0.0 mflat3 kn15kn15°C

Sea is the waves near the site, in metres; wind and gusts in knots. "Boats in": gusts that keep dive boats in. More

Tide

  • Mon 2 NovLow 00:01 −1.6 mHigh 06:37 +0.8 mLow 12:37 −0.5 mHigh 18:12 +0.9 m
  • Tue 3 NovLow 01:16 −1.4 mHigh 07:46 +0.9 mLow 14:02 −0.8 mHigh 19:46 +0.8 m
  • Wed 4 NovLow 02:26 −1.3 mHigh 08:46 +1.0 mLow 15:11 −1.1 mHigh 21:09 +0.9 m

Local clock times; heights about mean sea level. On open coasts the times are usually within a quarter of an hour; in bays, estuaries and on the Gulf of Mexico they can be an hour or more out. Slack water, the safest time to dive where there is current, is about half an hour either side of each high and low. Tide: EOT20 global ocean tide model, Hart-Davis et al. 2021, DGFI-TUM (doi:10.17882/79489), CC BY 4.0. Times and heights computed by us. A model, not a tide table: check a local table before you go.

Forecast updated . It refreshes every three hours. Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Map

the site and its town

Each place wears its best day on these dates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says.

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About

the place in full, sources, credits

About Blake Island Reef

A reef dive. It goes down to 24 m. You get in from a boat. It suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. The coast faces SE: swell from the SE reaches it, and wind from the NW blows out to sea. 1 dive centre or shop within 10 km, the nearest 8.0 km away. The town to stay in is Belfair.

  • What it is Reef.
  • How deep Down to 24 m.
  • Getting in From a boat.
  • Who it suits Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
  • Dive centres 1 dive centre or shop within 10 km, the nearest 8.0 km away.

Visibility under 5 m. Typical for the time of year, estimated from ten years of NASA satellite water clarity, not a forecast. Clearest in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct and Nov (under 5 m).

The score is the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change it (how we score, how we earn).

Rough cost (estimate): about US$931–US$1,720 each

about US$931–US$1,720 each · 6 nights, 2 sharing: flights, taxi, stay, food.

Our estimate from typical public prices, not a quote: check the real prices before you book (where they come from). Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 30 October 2026.

How we worked it out 
Rough cost per person for this trip
WhatHow we worked it outEach
Flightsreturn MDW to SEA, estimated from distance and season, 1 airline on the route, with a hold bagabout US$248–US$516
Taxiairport and back, sharedabout US$40–US$60
Stay6 nights, a mid-range double, sharedabout US$301–US$502
Food7 days eating outabout US$342–US$636
Totalabout US$931–US$1,720

Guided dives are not priced yet: we have no sourced price, so it is not in it. Prices from public sources, checked in 2026.

Where to stay: Belfair

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Closest

Belfair

about 50 min by car · 4 places to stay

about US$114/nightcountry average

See 4 places to stay in Belfair · Booking.com

About Belfair its beds, food and every spot near it

About US$114 a night is our estimate of the country's average 2-star double room that month: not each town's price, and not a quote. Drives are estimates. Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 30 October 2026.

Getting there: about 6h 40m

About 6h 40m door to door from Chicago

Fly MDW → SEA, direct, then 35 min by road

An estimate, one way; the journey never changes the score.

In the water

Dive centres nearby

The nearest named dive centres and shops within 25 km, in a straight line; training agencies where the map states them. Listings, not a recommendation. Dive centres: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Credits

What you might see

Animals divers and surveys have recorded within 2 km of this site in the last 15 years. A record says someone saw it here, not that you will.

  • Common seal Phoca vitulinaSeal or sea lion

    Seen in 10 records, mostly Sep.

Records: OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System, IOC-UNESCO), from the datasets named here, CC0 and CC BY records only. Names: WoRMS, through OBIS; common names from Wikidata. Largest datasets here: NWTRC JP04 Aerial Surveys 2014-2015; NWTRC JP02 Marine Mammal Aerial Surveys in the Puget Sound 2013; NWTRC Aerial Surveys in Puget Sound in 2016. Credits

This week's visibility and the current no free forecast gives. Ask a dive centre before you book.