Tag: quatsino narrows

Diving and Waiting Out the Storm – Day 2

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive
Post date 2008-06-10

By Nautilus Staff on June 10th, 2008 in Archive

It didn’t take much convincing for me to stage another dive there today. Finished the day off with a shore visit to the old whaling station at Coal Harbour on the far side of the Narrows. Coal Harbour was originally a coal mining town (go figure huh!!). It became a coastal defense station during World War 2 with large hangars, over 700 personnel and a fleet of Stranraer flying boats and Canso (aka PBY or Catalina) amphibious aircraft as well as fleet of high speed RCAF air-sea rescue boats (the dinner charter boat Malecite which still works out of Granville Island was one of these air-sea rescue boats and somewhat famous for trying to rescue the crew of a Stranraer that crashed in open ocean in 1944).

Tags Anemones, British Columbia, coal harbour, coastal history, history, quatsino narrows, seaplane hangars, Vancouver Island, whales, whaling station

Muck Diving in British Columbia

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive
Post date 2008-06-09

By Nautilus Staff on June 9th, 2008 in Archive

Our scuba divers loved it as they found every imaginable sort of nudibranch and “muck” creature. I was a bit skeptical when they surfaced and gleefully told us that it was fabulous British Columbia muck diving but everyone seemed to have a great time. One diver even found the steel hull of a shipwreck on one side of the island. We staged dives 2 and 3 at slack in Quatsino Narrows and very good dives were had by all.