Vancouver Scuba Diving
Vancouver has been having great visibility again and we're really excited about a new spot our favorite Vancouver dive charter operator found called "The Dragon's Den". They still have room for divers on Saturday and Sunday (June 11 & 12) in both Nanaimo and Howe Sound. Visibility last weekend was over 80 feet ! Here’s their note on The Dragon’s Den: "We found a GREAT new site we are planning to dive again on Sunday this weekend – we are calling it the “Dragon’s Den”. Beautiful wall with nice cavernous overhang at 65’ full of life including plumous anenomes hanging upside down inside the cavern…" Visit Cooldives.com to learn more about diving in Vancouver British Columbia. Just a reminder that in the 2011 Readers Choice Awards, British Columbia was once again the best bang for your diving dollar. Per Scuba Diving Magazine "It’s not so much the exchange rate, or the multitude of dive shops and boats on this Canadian dive island. It’s just that they like to dive, and to take you to see things you’ll not experience anywhere else. So they make it reasonable and easy (and the Vancouver Island Canadians are just so dang friendly about it too). After dives on bountiful shipwrecks off Nanaimo, Victoria and Campbell River (there are 1.5 shipwrecks per mile here, including the famed Saskatchewan, Cape Breton and Riv Tow), seeing the primitive six-gill sharks off Barkley Sound and such cool critters as monkey-faced eels, wolf eels, sea lions and giant Pacific octopuses on the big side, and hooded nudibranchs on the small side, you’ll have one single compulsion: to emigrate" Profile