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Canada Scuba Diving


An Undercurrent Insider Report on Canada Diving
The Consumer Newsletter for Serious Divers Since 1975

Overview of Canada

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.

Canada Feature Articles and Reader Reports

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God's Pocket Resort [same] Northern Vancouver Island Sandra Cohen 2007/09 Report
Aquarius Divers [same] 1000 islands Jack Gullo 2007/08 Report
Thousand Islands Pleasure Divers Headlands Motel St. Lawrence River fiona rattray 2007/08 Report
Nautilus Explorer [same] Vancouver Island Jerry Jensen 2007/08 Report
Abyssal Dive Charters N/A British Columbia Douglas Hansen 2007/07 Report
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Liveaboards

Thumbs Up for Nautilus Explorer, Thumbs Down for Undercurrent Poseur, (see sidebar, p.2), 8/04

The Nautilus Explorer , adventure diving in British Columbia, 8/03

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Liveaboards 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003  

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Editor's Book Picks for 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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