Scuba Diving Canada
Diving Canada articles, reviews, and reports from Undercurrent
Diving Canada Overview
This is dry suit country. If you can take the cold water, the rewards include an incredible array of filter feeders and marine life that you'll never dive with in warm waters.
Vancouver Island, reachable by air or ferry from Seattle or Vancouver, BC, is a remarkable wilderness destination, both on land and in the water. A traveler may encounter anything from eagles to orcas, sea lions to bears, while diving with a remarkable range of critters such as sea lions, seals, wolf eels and giant Pacific octopuses. There are dive resorts in the Campbell River area, and a few liveaboards such as the well-respected Nautilus Explorer plie these waters. Diving is controlled by the enormous tides that dictate when and where the water is moving, so choosing an experience operator is important.
Undercurrent readers have reported on other Western Canada dive operations located on Victoria Island and in Whitehorse (Yukon Territory), plus St. Albert and Edmonton (Alberta).
Wreck diving is the big draw in Lake Ontario. Truly hardy souls can try ice diving at Baffin Island near the Arctic Circle. There's some diving off the Eastern provinces, such as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
Canada Seasonal Dive Planner
Most British Columbia diving takes place from late Spring to early Fall. The Nautilus Explorer, for instance, heads to Mexico after August. In Nova Scotia, the Gulf Stream warms the ocean surface to 64° F in summer.
Diving Canada Feature Articles and Reader Reports
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Canada Dive Reviews
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Nautilus Explorer Review
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British Columbia, Port Hardy |
DONALD MCCOY |
2011/10 |
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Nautilus Explorer Review
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British Columbia |
Douglas Hansen |
2011/04 |
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Rendezvous Dive Adventures Review
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Barkley Sound |
Dan Clements |
2010/10 |
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Northern Tech Diver, Abucs Review
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Days Inn |
Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence Riv |
Paul Williams |
2010/09 |
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Access Diving Review
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Silva Bay Inn |
Gabriola Island, British Colum |
Ken Kutner |
2010/08 |
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Diving Canada Articles - Land Based
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| Rendezvous Dive Adventures, British Columbia, a laid-back idyll on Vancouver Island for cold-water divers, 2/12 |
| Browning Pass Hideaway, British Columbia, profusion of life in majestic yet kooky setting, 11/10 |
| Bahamas, B.V.I., Ontario, Roatan…, the good, bad and ugly in dive resorts, boats and service, 10/08 |
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Editor's Book Picks for Scuba Diving Canada
The books below are my favorites about diving in this part of the
world All books are available at a significant discount from Amazon.com;
just follow the links. -- BD
You might find some other books of interest in our Editor's
Book Picks section.
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