Scuba Diving The Oregon Coast Newport

looking from the south jetty to the north jetty and the Newport bridge.

Newport is located on the Oregon coast, about 2 hours west of Eugene on Highway 101. This is a beautiful area in the summer months and winter stormy months.

As you first approach the Newport bridge you will need to take a right turn before the bridge and follow the road around and go past the Rouge BEER brewery, and you will go under the bridge and through a state gate to what is locally referred to as the fingers. Get your Dive gear ready.

TIP: Always prepare for a dive by a very extensive dive gear check and a consult you own personal Dive Gear checklist on every dive, (don’t forget, check your buddy too).

The fingers is a straight line pile of rocks that is just visible above the water that follows along into the bay about 60 feet, and there are 4 of them.

There is another dive that you can do just up past the bathroom station. Follow the rocks down to the water and float to the 1st finger, on a fast current you can cover a lot of territory and I don’t think i have ever not been able to get a big Lingcod and plenty of Black Bass (a local favorite and mine) during the float unless it was very dark water which limits visibility.

Most everybody parks at the 2nd finger (equipped with a very large parking area) and plenty of access to the water, over the rocks of course, and look out the rocks are slippery.

Be sure and take a compass heading directly away from the rocks so when the dive is complete you can follow you compass back to shore, the easiest way to enter the water is to tie your fins to your BCD (using a lanyard of some type) and let them hang so you can have your hands somewhat free to navigate the slick rocks (you’ll need your spear gun of course and I always lanyard it to my BCD also) you can put your fins on in the water.

Once in the water sink to the bottom beside the rocks and work your way along side following the rocks to the end of the finger, be sure to look closely at all the small rock openings for a big fish to be hiding back inside them, and don’t forget your crab net also, there are plenty of crab in the rocks, so bring home your bounty.

The other fingers are very good diving also, but the large parking area is nice for gear removal and not having to walk back to you vehicle in full gear is nice for some folks. Please feel free to comment about your favorite dive atNewport and please join my blog. Thank you very much for reading my post about Scuba Diving the Oregon Coast Newport

Thank You, Gregory Pierce @ Scuba Happy