The Unofficial SCUBA British Columbia Page

The photo above is of the Emerald Princess a statue by B.C. artist Simon Morris.
She can be seen in 55 feet of water at Mermaid Cove (Saltery Bay) British Columbia.
© 1996 Kerry L. Werry

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Scuba Diving in British Columbia

British Columbia offers some of the best diving in the world, with tonnes (tons for the metric impaired) of marine life. Many marine creatures grow to exceptional size, like 1 meter seastars or 60kg octopus. The waters are cold but nutrient rich, and in many places the nutrients are moved about by substantial currents. This wealth of nutrients sometimes makes for less that stellar visibility, but that's the price you pay for diving in some of the best sites in the world. To find out more about general conditions in B.C. check out the dive site reviews section.

British Columbia also offers the chance to dive in spots that compared to many dive sites are virtually untouched (or at least as untouched as any place can be in today's world). In general the charter groups are under 15 diver (many as few as 10) and the diving is much less controlled. What I mean is no cattle boat diving.

Look around these pages and see if you think diving in British Columbia might be for you.