About Photos Revisions Sealife Center Seward, AK 99664 Max Depth: 31-35ft/9-11m Entry Type: Shore Bottom Composition: Clay/Muck Aquatic Life: Plenty To See 3/15/2012 1:13 PM

Sealife Center is a shore accessible fresh water dive site, located in Seward, AK 99664. The maximum depth is 31-35ft/9-11m.

There is excellent diving in front of the Sealife Center downtown.
You have a number of possible entries, the most direct of which is a
giant stride off the sea wall. Check the tides - you get more bottom
time at low tide, but you need to find an alternate entry. The water
near the sea wall is only about 30-35 feet deep at high tide, and at low
tide there are places on the wall with a 15 foot drop to the water.
It’s easy to lose a mask, regulator, or even a BC. Worse, you can end
up hitting the mud on entry. If the tide is low, rather than tempting
fate just walk around the wall and into the water over the boulders.

Apparently the Alaska Steamship Company warehouse was washed into
the ocean at this site by a tsunami that followed the 1964 earthquake.
There are plenty of neat things to check out as a result, including
"caves" that resulted from glacial silt and other detritus settling on
top of pieces of the warehouse. I would not penetrate any of
these caves - they are not stable. Also, watch out for wildlife in the
area. There are some sea lions, including at least one old bull that
lives right near the interesting stuff. Finally, be aware that there is
a ledge running roughly parallel to the sea wall at about 35-40 feet.
The interesting stuff is deeper. When you go over the ledge, you can
quickly become disoriented. I don’t know how deep it will go, but it
goes deeper than I will. Watch your gauges and be aware, just like
diving a blue hole.