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Waterman Wall
 5602 E Lighthouse Dr, Port Orchard, WA
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Max Depth: Over 150ft/46m
Entry Type: Boat
Bottom Composition: Sand
Aquatic Life: Plenty To See
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Rating: 4.00 by 1 divers
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Waterman Wall is a boat accessible salt water dive site, located at 5602 E Lighthouse Dr, Port Orchard, WA. This dive site has an average rating of 4.00 out of 5 from 1 scuba divers. The maximum depth is over 150ft/46m.
At the southeast entrance to Bremerton, Waterman Point Light marks a wall that is a system of ledges at 45’, 65’ and 85’ dropping off to very deep water. Divers can pick their own comfort level and explore the resulting small walls for life of all kinds, including wolf eels and octopus. Anchorage can be found on either side in small, protected coves. Dive at slack water, watch for downdraft currents, and beware of boat traffic.
This wall has the three D’s. It’s deep, dark, and dangerous. If you are an accomplished diver and like walls, you need to dive here. If you are an intermediate diver, you should find a charter or someone to take you and help you have a safe dive. This wall is much more rugged than most Puget Sound walls. It has lots of jagged features with shelves, cracks, boulders and such. It gives you the sense of mountain climbing under water as this cliff would look at home on a Cascade mountain. The top of the wall starts at 50-70 feet. It is jagged, so the depth depends on where you hit it. The bottom is 130-175 feet, at least from what I saw. My last dive here was to 150 feet and I couldn’t see the bottom. There are scallops, giant barnacles and many starfish to represent some of the invertebrates. Rockfish, Sculpin, Cabazon, Lingcod, Octo’s, and Wolf eels can be found here too. If you are lucky, you may even see a Red Brotula. This site is super exposed to current including water falling currents so dive at SLACK with a small exchange. This is traveled by lots of boats including ferries so use a dive flag and avoid a free accent in the channel, or it could be your last. Waterman’s point is located NE of Port Orchard and is across from the SW corner of Bainbridge Island. The point is marked by a prominent Navigational maker on a concrete base a few feet out from shore. The wall is found by heading out from this marker towards a little red house on the opposite shore (towards Bremerton). This will place you right over the steepest portion of the wall. I find it best to anchor in the cove just to the west of the marker in front of the two houses with sandy beaches cut out of the rock. The cobble bottom gives good hold for your anchor here.