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Abyssal Dive Charters and Lodge

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Company description Come join us at Abyssal Dive Charters and Lodge for the diving experience you will never forget that keeps divers coming back for more year after year. Dive the spectacular waters that surround Campbell River, which have earned the reputation for having excellent visibility, plus colourful and bountiful life. Earl Lowe’s knowledge of the area, his captain skills, and ability to place people in the water at just the right time on a current or drift dive is amazing and second to none. This area of British Columbia is also known as a photographer’s Mecca. There’s so much life to see, photographers run out of film on virtually every dive.
In their reader’s survey, Rodale’s Scuba Diving rates British Columbia as the top Dive Destination in North America in 2003, for the third year in a row . British Columbia topped nine categories and placed in the top 5 in three others:
Top Value
Top Macro Life
Top Fish Life
Top Underwater Photography
Healthiest Marine Environment
Top Advanced Diving and
Top Wall Diving
The area earned second place honors in visibility and places to dive with big animals. BC ranked third for its wreck diving.
Northwest Dive News and the Canadian Diver magazines also rate the area very highly in the total diving experience in the Pacific North West. Jacques Cousteau and the National Geographic Magazine have rated the area as the second best diving in the world; surpassed only by the Red Sea.
The current flows through Seymour Narrows, the smallest portion of the 25 mile long passage at speeds up to 15.4kts in 1996. (Canadian Tide and Current Table) This is slightly faster than Nakwakto Rapids which holds the Guiness Record?! This current provides an incredible amount of both nutrients and oxygen to sustain an incredible array of marine life, especially those that feed by filtering the water. Many different species of colourful anemones, sponges, tube worms, and other invertebrates compete for the available space and wait for the food to come to them. In the cracks and crevices, wolf eels, huge lingcod, tiger rockfish, and the elusive giant pacific octopus find a home that is sheltered from the current. The many varieties of colourful nudibranchs will catch your eye. Close to the surface, huge schools of tiny fish find safety in numbers from spiny dogfish and salmon.
Forests of bull kelp near shore manage to survive hundreds of hungry sea urchins. Harbour seals have taken up residence in Gowlland Harbour and are always curiously investigating any visitors in the area. A small island called Steep is also located in Discovery Passage. For her book 99 Dives, Betty Pratt-Johnson visited Steep and wrote; ``Steep is one of those dives I label as having ``Star`` quality. Divers who want to visit the most special places in the world will want to go to Steep.``
Scuba diving at Discovery Passage`s world class sites can only be safely done during slack tide intervals. Approximately every six hours the current slows until it finally reverses direction, the boats are kept live during the dive and will ensure other vessel traffic stays well clear. Please note that times for slack tide and slack current are related but different.
Discovery Passage`s many world class dive sites have been luring divers here since the early `80`s when commercial divers would show visiting recreational divers the water`s secrets. Since then, numerous articles in various dive magazines and good old ``word of mouth`` has turned Campbell River and neighbouring Quadra Island into a true diving destination.
Location description: Some words about
Row and be Damned
Rated one of Rodale`s top 10 dive sites in BC. A favorite of divers no matter where you start your dive. One of the best scenic, drift diving experiences you will ever have on the West Coast.
This site is truly abundant with life, including colourful corals, strawberry anemones, octopus, sponges, Puget sound king crabs, fish and more fish.

Cooper Cliff
The sheer wall falls 300 feet into the water where you’ll see cormorants, mule deer and eagles along the edges. Then over another 100 feet below the surface to a series of ledges where it drops again to the bottom.
Everything underwater is huge because of the tide exchanges, Puget sound king crabs, schools of black rockfish, dog fish, tiger and copper rock fish, red snapper, wolf eels, mosshead warbonnets, giant plumous anemones, orange cup corals, cloud sponges, feather duster tube worms, nudibranchs of many kinds, sea squirts and curious seals.
The current flows through Seymour Narrows, the smallest portion of the 25 mile long passage at speeds up to 15.4kts in 1996. (Canadian Tide and Current Table) This is slightly faster than Nakwakto Rapids which holds the Guiness Record?! This current provides an incredible amount of both nutrients and oxygen to sustain an incredible array of marine life, especially those that feed by filtering the water. Many different species of colourful anemones, sponges, tube worms, and other invertebrates compete for the available space and wait for the food to come to them. In the cracks and crevices, wolf eels, huge lingcod, tiger rockfish, and the elusive giant pacific octopus find a home that is sheltered from the current. The many varieties of colourful nudibranchs will catch your eye. Close to the surface, huge schools of tiny fish find safety in numbers from spiny dogfish and salmon.
Forests of bull kelp near shore manage to survive hundreds of hungry sea urchins. Harbour seals have taken up residence in Gowlland Harbour and are always curiously investigating any visitors in the area. A small island called Steep is also located in Discovery Passage. For her book 99 Dives, Betty Pratt-Johnson visited Steep and wrote; ``Steep is one of those dives I label as having ``Star`` quality. Divers who want to visit the most special places in the world will want to go to Steep.``
What`s the secret?
Strong tidal currents. They provide food for the abundance of unique marine life that simply can`t survive anywhere else. The visibility in this high current eco-system rarely drops below 30 feet due to constant upwellings of clear water. Summer time plankton blooms only occur in the top 30-40 feet and are quickly diluted by these upwellings. This 30 foot (plus) visibility is excellent for British Columbia in the summer and in spring, fall, and winter the water is beautifully clear. Combine this with protected inside waters, mild weather and you have the perfect spot for a British Columbia diving adventure.

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Diving charters and accommodations on Quadra Island, British Columbia. Includes information on diving, photographs, reservations, and contact information.

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Phone: (250)285-2420
Fax: (250)285-2427
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British Columbia
Canada
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 8 Tijuana
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