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Diving on a Boeing 737

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-06-11

By Nautilus Staff on June 11th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Today we got to go diving on a Boeing 737! How often does that happen?! This tired old worn-out Canadian Airlines 737 series 200 (which is the 2nd evolution of the “thirty-seven” and far more fuel thirsty than the 737’s currently flown by the major airlines) was stripped down by a salvage company and then donated to the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia. Peter Luckham (49th Parallel Dive Charters) organized an effort to plop the jet down on top of 4 “stilts” in 95 feet of water just off Chemainus and it is an interesting dive site.

Tags artificial reef society, boeing 737, breakwater island, chemainus, dodd narrows, wolf eels, wreck diving

Diving with Mudsharks at Telegraph Cove

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-06-09

By Nautilus Staff on June 9th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Walt’s Wall on Pearce Island turned out to be the highlight of today with spectacular visibility. We were able to see waayyyy down the wall from the deck of the skiff and enjoyed the dive almost as much as our divers!! It is a spectacular site much like San Miguel Island in the Channel Islands with heavy invertebrate life throughout the kelp forest and down over the edge of the wall.

Tags barry islet, coral invertebrate life, diving, kelp forest, mudsharks, pearce island, stubbs island, walts wall

Pseudo Beach Party on the New Sundeck After Diving

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-06-07

By Nautilus Staff on June 7th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Diving conditions are good although the visibility is still somewhat “bloomy” after a couple of weeks of clear skies and sunshine. Our guests are very happy and quite a few folks have commented that the wall at Rita’s Rock is better and even more interesting (varied?) than the world-famous Browning Wall (which was rated as the number one dive site in North America 2two years running by Rodales Scuba Diving).

Tags Browning Wall, crab feast, deserter islands, queen charlotte strait, ritas rock, wedding cake

Scuba Dive with the Wolf Eels at Dillon Rock

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-06-06

By Nautilus Staff on June 6th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Dillon Rock is a barely submerged pinnacle marked by a small green light at the entrance to Shushartie Bay and is surely the most famous place in the world to scuba dive with wolf eels. I have personally seen up to 7 wolf eels here on just one dive. This is also the only place that I have ever had the extremely rare experience of been bitten by a wolf eel (a male that I believe to be “alpha” came up behind me and latched onto my leg as I lay on the mud bottom taking a picture of another wolf eel). Being bitten by a wolf eel is virtually unheard of.

Tags British Columbia, dillion rock, port hardy, shushartie bay, wolf eels

Blown Away by a Humpback Whale in Browning Pass

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-06-05

By Nautilus Staff on June 5th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

The thrill of the day was when a humpback whale came down the middle of Browning Pass just as we were wrapping up a dive at Snowfall. A couple of divers with “code yellows” made the heroic decision to “hold on” and let us drift down the pass and observe the humpback. We were all “blown away” (pun intended) when the humpy surfaced 20ft away from the skiff after a 6 – 8 minute dive. Emily and Charlie were on the skiff with me and it was awesome to see their excitement. Having the kids onboard has made this an especially and exceptionally enjoyable trip for me.

Tags Browning Pass, coral invertebrate life, humpback whales, plankton bloom, port hardy, snowfall

Diving in Browning Pass, British Columbia

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-06-04

By Nautilus Staff on June 4th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Dive Day 1 of the first trip of our British Columbia scuba diving season and we have already done 2 dives in Browning Pass! Browning Wall makes for quite the warmup dive! We boarded our guests in Vancouver yesterday evening and sailed straight up the Inside Passage, past Port Hardy, arriving at Hussar Point, Browning Pass in the late afternoon.

Tags Browning Pass, Hussar point, nudibranches, red coral, red wall

California Channel Islands Maiden Scuba Diving Voyage

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-05-13

By Nautilus Staff on May 13th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Our guests dove “Octopus Gardens” and “Fishhook” at the south end of San Clemente and the diving conditions were reported as very good. “Fishhook” was especially good, with reportedly interesting terrain, numerous sightings of bat rays, eels and more lobster (“bugs”) than anyone could count.

Tags bat rays, california, Channel Islands, drysuit diving, eels, fishhook, lobster, octopus gardens, San Clemente Island

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