Best Dive Sites In British Columbia

British Columbia is fortunate to have some of the world’s best dive sites and is becoming recognized as a premiere year round scuba diving destination.

Professional and recreational divers consistently rank British Columbia as one of the best places in the world to visit and dive.

To help plan your dives, I've split this great dive destination into the following favorite areas and British Columbia dive sites:

1. Vancouver and the Lower Mainland

- Whytecliffe Marine Park

- Porteau Cove Provincial Park

2. Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands
- Race Rocks (Victoria)

- Ogden Point Breakwater (Victoria)

- 10 Mile Point (Victoria)

- GB Church (Sidney)

- HMCS MacKenzie (Sidney)

- 737 Artificial Wreck (Chemainus)

- Dodd Narrows (Nanaimo)

- Former HMCS Saskatchewan & Cape Breton and Rivtow Lion (Nanaimo)

- Row And Be Damned (Campbell River)

- Seymour Narrows (Campbell River)

- HMCS Columbia (Campbell River)

- Browning Wall (Port Hardy)

- Hunt Rock (Port Hardy)

- Nakwakto Rapids (Port Hardy)

- Six Gill Shark Territory (Flora Islet / Hornby Island)

3. The Sunshine Coast

- Skookumchuck Rapids (Sunshine Coast)

- Former HMCS Chaudiere (Sunshine Coast)

- Saltery Bay - Mermaid Cove (Sunshine Coast)

I have provided some dive reviews, and will be adding dive site reviews from users of this site and more detail to my dive information on an ongoing basis.

Feel free to contact Elaine, my recommended dive vacation travel agent to put together a scuba vacation package for you as well.

Or if you need a local Vancouver Scuba Safari organizer to pick you up and accompany you on your dives, contact Mark from Coral Reef Diving.

If you're interested, check out where Rodale Scuba Diving Magazine picked as their Best Dive Sites in British Columbia?

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Important Information

Before diving anywhere, talk with an experienced local dive shop. When possible, dive with a group, and always dive with a buddy.

Please plan your dive and dive your plan. Be safe.

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