Shaws Cove

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What you'll see (17)

Sunburst AnemoneAnthopleura solaseen 1414× near here

Ochre Sea StarPisaster ochraceusseen 1315× near here

Striped Shore CrabPachygrapsus crassipesseen 883× near here

California MusselMytilus californianusseen 416× near here

Spanish ShawlFlabellinopsis iodineaseen 373× near here

Pacific Purple Sea UrchinStrongylocentrotus purpuratusseen 353× near here

Blueband Hermit CrabPagurus samuelisseen 348× near here

Gooseneck BarnaclePollicipes polymerusseen 347× near here

Aggregating AnemoneAnthopleura elegantissimaseen 339× near here

California Spiny LobsterPanulirus interruptusseen 330× near here

Hopkins' Rose NudibranchCeratodoris rosaceaseen 297× near here

Western Spiny Brittle StarOphiothrix spiculataseen 280× near here

California SeahareAplysia californicaseen 264× near here

Pink Volcano BarnacleTetraclita rubescensseen 255× near here

OpaleyeGirella nigricansseen 232× near here

Wavy TurbanMegastraea undosaseen 217× near here

Salt-and-pepper DorisAegires albopunctatusseen 190× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

14,186km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. the only logged site in the area.

When people dive it

Busiest Jan, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Nov, Dec.

From 78,390 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~23h 36m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightLos Angeles (LAX)~21h 18mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~27 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~1h 21mAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatShaws Cove~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Shaws Cove on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Los Angeles

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Island: Seal Rock
Country: United States
Marks: 33°32.702'N 117°47.920'W
Position: 33.5450, -117.7987

Where it is

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Nearby

Avalon Dive Park53km

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.