July, 2024
Kauai, the Garden Island of Hawaii, offers the highest concentration of Green Sea turtles that I’ve ever experienced. It’s also a gateway to Niihau, the remote “Forbidden Island”, where divers go to dive with the endangered Hawaiian Monk seal. The island’s powerful natural beauty also offers much for the outdoor enthusiast to explore.
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July, 2022.
Fiji has a well known and deserved reputation as the “Soft Coral Capital of the World”, and easily ranks within the top five coral reefs to dive. This trip focuses on the main Island of Viti Levu on the Bligh reefs (yes, that Bligh!) in the North, and the famous Beqa Lagoon shark dive in the south.
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July, 2021
Guadalupe Island is a well known White shark congregation site, located about 240 km off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. We were one of the first ones to arrive at the biosphere reserve since it was closed due to Covid-19 for nearly a year and a half. Our anticipations were high. Being in the water with the Ocean’s largest predatory fish had been on my bucket list for a long time.
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January, 2020.
The Revillagigedo Archipelago- or more commonly, Socorro islands- is a group of four isolated volcanic remnants about 400 km (250 miles) Southwest of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. The islands are like an oasis in the desert of the open ocean, attracting life, and supporting their own unique ecosystem. It’s the largest fully protected Marine Reserve in North America.
Rightfully known as the “Mexican Galapagos”, people from all over the world come here for their famous Giant Manta Ray, shark and dolphin encounters. Having heard a lot of good reports from other divers, I had to go see for myself.
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August, 2018.
Northern Vancouver Island has a reputation for being among the best temperate diving in the world. National Geographic has recognized the area as one of their ultimate adventure bucket list dives due to the density and diversity of life found there. Many of the dive sites here are world renowned, such as the Browning Wall, and the Nakwakto Rapids. From whales to macro critters, this place has it all.
August, 2017
On this year’s trip we scored with some close encounters with the Grizzlies on a day trip with Sea Wolf Adventures. But the diving conditions didn’t cooperate as expected. This called for some macrophotography, close-ups, portraits, and turning off the camera to just enjoy the silent moments.
August, 2016.
Colourful plunging walls, pinnacles, thrilling drift dives, abundant life, orcas, whales, and encounters with weird and wonderful animals. Every dive begins with all of the thrill of a treasure hunt. That is enough of a reason to return.
But there’s a second reason. The more you dive it, the more you will see. Let me show you what I mean.
August 2016.
The infamous Nakwakto rapids is one of the top cold water dives that you can do in Canada. The Guiness Book of World records lists the Nakwakto rapids as having the fastest navigable tidal rapids in the world, up to 16 knots (30 km/h). There you can also find the beautiful and unique Nakwakto Goose-neck barnacle, found nowhere else in the world. (Oh, and don’t forget the bragging rights that follow!) Take the plunge…
July, 2016.
Two short ferry rides from the east coast of Vancouver Island lies a unique and enchanting island in the Strait of Georgia. It’s thirty-square kilometer size belies the diversity of wildlife and experiences to be discovered there. Many divers return year after year because of the overall experience, with plenty of topside activities to do.
August, 2015
Imagine a place so diverse and dense with life that it is literally stacked on top of each other. You’re surrounded by emerald green coloured water on one side and on the other by sheer white coloured walls studded with kaleidiscopically coloured sponges, anenomes, and fishes. In between dives you will absorb beautifully rugged scenery, and there’s a good chance that you will see one or more stellar sea lions, sea otters, whales, dolphins, porpoises or even orcas. It’s virtually untouched and you’re most often the only ones out on the water. That place is God’s Pocket, British Columbia.
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