Staying Home Sucks, home
Port of Tacoma Commencement Bay Sunset
Near USCGC Tiger. Photo: Atomic Taco from Seattle, WA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

USCGC Tiger

Dive site · United States

Advanced divers and up

Is it worth the trip?

62Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

3 days tie for best

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Wed 4 · 65 out of 100

Sea
–
Wind
1 kn
Gusts
4kn
Air
12°C

Thu 5 · 64 out of 100

Sea
–
Wind
4 kn
Gusts
12kn
Air
14°C

Fri 6 · 62 out of 100

Sea
–
Wind
6 kn
Gusts
17kn
Air
12°C

Sat 7 · 65 out of 100

Sea
–
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
7kn
Air
17°C

Sun 8 · 64 out of 100

Sea
–
Wind
4 kn
Gusts
19kn
Air
13°C

Mon 9 · 65 out of 100

Sea
–
Wind
0 kn
Gusts
8kn
Air
14°C

Tue 10 · 28 out of 100

Sea
–
Wind
12 kn
Gusts
25knboats in
Air
13°C

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

Forecast: next 10 days

Full forecast
  1. Tue 365, good
  2. Wed 465, good
  3. Thu 564, good
  4. Fri 662, good
  5. Sat 765, good
  6. Sun 864, good
  7. Mon 965, good
  8. Tue 1028, poor
  9. Wed 1157, fair
  10. Thu 1262, good

The site in four facts

  • Down to 18 mits deepest
  • From a boathow you get in
  • Advancedand up
  • Faces SWswell 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 USCGC Tiger
DayScoreSeaWindGustsAir
Tue 3Nov65, good–1 kn5kn13°C
Wed 4Nov65, good–1 kn4kn12°C
Thu 5Nov64, good–4 kn12kn14°C
Fri 6Nov62, good–6 kn17kn12°C
Sat 7Nov65, good–2 kn7kn17°C
Sun 8Nov64, good–4 kn19kn13°C
Mon 9Nov65, good–0 kn8kn14°C
Tue 10Nov28, poor–12 kn25knboats in13°C
Wed 11Nov57, fair–7 kn26knboats in14°C
Thu 12Nov62, good–11 kn27kn11°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

  • Tue 3 NovLow 06:44 −0.2 mHigh 12:46 +0.1 mLow 18:50 −0.1 m
  • Wed 4 NovHigh 00:45 +0.1 mLow 07:29 −0.2 mHigh 13:31 +0.1 mLow 19:36 −0.2 m
  • Thu 5 NovHigh 01:31 +0.1 mLow 08:10 −0.2 mHigh 14:10 +0.1 mLow 20:20 −0.2 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, its town, photos

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

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Photos of USCGC Tiger

Commencement Bay
Near USCGC Tiger, 1 km away. Photo: Dana Hutchinson, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
BLC First 6798
Near USCGC Tiger. Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

About

the place in full, sources, credits

About USCGC Tiger

A wreck dive. It goes down to 18 m. You get in from a boat. It suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. The coast faces SW: swell from the SW reaches it, and wind from the NE blows out to sea. 2 dive centres or shops within 10 km, the nearest 7.3 km away. The town to stay in is Tacoma.

  • What it is Wreck.
  • How deep Down to 18 m.
  • Getting in From a boat.
  • Who it suits Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
  • Dive centres 2 dive centres or shops within 10 km, the nearest 7.3 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$933–US$1,730 each

about US$933–US$1,730 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 2 November 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$517
Taxiairport and back, sharedabout US$40–US$74
Stay6 nights, a mid-range double, sharedabout US$302–US$503
Food7 days eating outabout US$342–US$637
Totalabout US$933–US$1,730

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: Tacoma

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Closest

Tacoma

about 10 min by car · 16 places to stay

about US$114/nightcountry average

See 16 places to stay in Tacoma · Booking.com

About Tacoma 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 2 November 2026.

Getting there: about 6h 45m

About 6h 45m door to door from Chicago

Fly MDW → SEA, direct, then 40 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.

  • Harbor seal Phoca vitulinaSeal or sea lion

    Seen in 41 records, mostly Jul to Sep.

Records: OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System, IOC-UNESCO) and GBIF.org (1 November 2026, doi:10.15468/dl.jeesns), from the datasets named here, CC0 and CC BY records only. Names: WoRMS and GBIF; common names from the Catalogue of Life, the GBIF Backbone and 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; Happywhale - Humpback whale in North Pacific Ocean; iNaturalist Research-grade Observations. Credits

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