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[schultz]

Thanks for the info on fishbase.org. It's a pretty neat site, but a little difficult to take offline if you know what I mean.

Ebb and Flood in the great lakes - not much really. While the tidal currents in the Great Lakes are weak as compared with ocean currents, air pressure changes have a larger effect on tides and currents in the great lakes.  The Great Lakes can form seiches—oscillations of surface water that can change water levels by three feet in just moments. A seiche (French meaning “to sway back and forth”) is formed when wind and air pressure change and cause the surface of a lake to rock back and forth.

When in doubt though, you can always check with NOAA:

We get some great drift dives out here in the Tacoma narrows and Agatte pass (sp).  Deception pass is out of my league as it's so fast you can also get violent up and down wellings.

Yeah, I've been diving in the San Juans and Hood River Canal out there in the past year or so. Great diving. I have yet to do the Narrows, but I'm told that seeing the bridge down there is pretty neat. Personally I really would love to do Lake Washington and try to locate some of the aircrafts (ala Boeing and Navy planes once based at the old Sand Point Naval Air Station)  that have crashed in that lake over the last 50 years... I've met some of the people that have dove it and said it was totally awesome.

Man, I gotta get out to Seattle again...