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Jellyfish from cold water Impressions

Note from Capt. Mike: Returning to Cold Water?

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2017-05-17
  • 1 Comment on Note from Capt. Mike: Returning to Cold Water?
By Nautilus Staff on May 17th, 2017 in Captain Mike

Note from Captain Mike. I am often asked if we are ever going to resume running dive trips in British Columbia and Alaska. The obvious answer is that YES, we would love to!! I spent 20 plus years exploring the pacific coast from Cape Flattery in Washington State to Glacier Bay and Juneau. I still […]

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  • Tags Alaska, British Columbia, diveboat, diving, liveaboard

Kermode Bear on the Beach

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-07-23
By Nautilus Staff on July 23rd, 2008 in Archive

Our morning dive on the wreck of the Transpac was outstanding as usual with visibility estimated at 80 feet or more. The Transpac is without a doubt the most amazing wreck I have ever seen – standing upright as it does with the transom of the 180 foot fish boat plunked down on a ledge at 285 feet with the bow at 110 feet and the wreck aligned almost perfectly upright on the sheer wall. Did a dock dive in the afternoon and those divers who stayed under the pilings had a fabulous dive with giant pacific octopus sightings as well as 20 plus ratfish (aka chimera). We’re off to Shushartie Bay (Dillon Rock) and Browning Wall tonight and then in to Vancouver to finish off this very fine trip.

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  • Tags bc forest service, British Columbia, Browning Wall, Butedale, chimeras, dillion rock, dock dive, ghost town, giant pacific octopus, kermode bear, princess royal island, ratfish, sushartie bay, transpac, vancouver, wreck diving

Scuba Diving on the Alaska Border

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-06-18
By Nautilus Staff on June 18th, 2008 in Archive

Started today off with a “mystery dive” on a pinnacle just north of Green Islet lighthouse. There was a wee bit more current than I expected but the divers reported that the diving on the wall and tumbles on the backside of the pinnacle was excellent with loads of white plumose anemones and other typical pacific northwest life. Other divers wandered onto the flats and investigated under and around the large boulders with less success.

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  • Tags Alaska, Anemones, British Columbia, exploration dives, foggy bay, green inlet, ketchikan, white plumose anemones

A 180ft Fishboat Pinned Vertically to a Wall!

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-06-17
By Nautilus Staff on June 17th, 2008 in Archive

The amazing thing is that there is a ledge on the wall 285 feet below the surface and as the ship was sliding down the wall, the stern wedged itself on the ledge and the ship came to a dead stop in a vertical orientation! The stern of the 180ft ship is at 285 feet and the bow is at 110 feet! It’s not often one gets to see a large fishing vessel pinned vertically to a wall! I did one of my most memorable dives ever here when my instructor and I splashed to 285 feet on Inspiration rebreathers. The water was so clear that we could see from the stern all the way to the bow looking straight up towards the surface through a cloud of rockfish swimming around the mast (and no, I wasn’t narc’d!!).

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  • Tags Alaska king crab, British Columbia, Butedale, crabbers, fishboat, princess royal island, Rockfish, summer sea, transpac, worlds deadliest catch, wreck diving

A BC Classic: Port Hardy Scuba Diving

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  • Post date 2008-06-16
By Nautilus Staff on June 16th, 2008 in Archive

The intense invertebrate life on Browning Wall is so thick and prolific and colourful that you cannot see the underlying rock at all. Until you’ve actually seen the brilliant reds, oranges, yellows, whites and all the amazing colours of the soft corals and other inverts, it is almost impossible to imagine how fantastic coldwater diving is. The tiny pinnacle of Dillon Rock is a story onto itself with 6+ wolfeels hiding in cracks and crevices, numerous giant pacific octopus, rarely sighted vermillion rockfish, a lovely kelp forest at the west side of the rock teeming with black rockfish, and dozens of chimera (ratfish in the shark family) cruising around on the sand bottom just off the rock. Great diving and a lovely day was had by all. Even the black bears cooperated with multiple beach appearances.

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  • Tags Black Bears, British Columbia, Browning Pass, Browning Wall, chimera, coldwater diving, dillion rock, giant pacific octopus, Hussar point, invertebrate life, kelp forest, port hardy, queen charlotte strait, ratfish, Rockfish, soft corals, sushartie bay, vermillion rockfish, wolfeels

Ripple Rock

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-06-15
By Nautilus Staff on June 15th, 2008 in Archive

We steamed through Seymour Narrows early this morning and anchored later in the Pearse Island group to stage a couple of scuba dives. Pearse Island is located halfway between the very well known dive site at Stubbs Island and Telegraph Cove, the whale watching capital of B.C. (and sure enough, we got to see 4 orcas westbound in Johnstone Strait this morning as well as some very speedy, agile and acrobatic Dall’s porpoises close to Telegraph Cove).  Steaming through Seymour Narrows is usually quite interesting and I am comfortable taking the Nautilus Explorer through with up to 8 knots of current on the tail. I can tell you that we have seen some very impressive whirlpools on some passages.

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  • Tags British Columbia, dalls porpoises, danger rock, johnstone strait, maude island, mike nelson, orcas, Pearse Island, porpoises, ripple rock, seahunt, seymour narrows, stubbs island, Telegraph Cove, whale watching

Superb Visibility and Lighthouse Visit in Quatsino Sound

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-06-11
By Nautilus Staff on June 11th, 2008 in Archive

We capped the day off with a visit to the Quatsino lighthouse and were given a wonderful tour by the very friendly lighthouse keepers. Quatsino is a beautiful place and I won’t soon forget watching the sun stream through the trees on the steep and heavily wooded hillside beside our anchorage. But without a doubt, the highlight of the day was steaming 1/2 mile offshore from dreaded Solander Island off Brooks Peninsula. It was a spectacular sight in surprising calm seas – calm enough that I actually thought of staging a spontaneous dive off Solander  (which is something I am sure nobody has ever done before).

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  • Tags British Columbia, brooks peninsula, caves, greenlings, kelp bed, lighthouse, Lingcod, quatsino sound, Rockfish, Solander Island, Vancouver Island, wolf eels

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