learning to dive

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Off Hornby Island you can dive to a spot where you can (apparently) sometimes see six-gill sharks. This (to me) is interesting because it's apparently the only spot where they're found in water as shallow as that and it's the only spot in the world where they come into non-tropical waters or something like that.

The six gill shark is normally a deep water shark but for what ever reason they come up to about 130 ft in for a short period of time in the summer. Barkley Sound is another place where you can dive with the six gills.
It's true, IMO, Canada's west coast some of the best diving in the world. The soft corals, anemones and sponges are incredible. To see the giant Pacific octopus of have the wolf eels greet you and come out to play is beyond belief. Yes the water is cold and yes it can be murky but the abundance of live in the nutrient rich water makes it all worthwhile.
You have to see it to believe it.