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Underwater Photo Location: Port Hardy British Columbia

Underwater Photo Location: Port Hardy British Columbia

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Some of the best diving in the world according to Jacques Cousteau and I must agree. Browning pass is like a wall of color and life is everywhere. This dive site if you can handle the cold water is better than any warm water diving I have seen. Bring your drysuit.
Facts about Port Hardy British Columbia
  • It is in Canada
  • Port Hardy British Columbia is in the Pacific.
  • The typical depth is 0-40 Metres 0-130 Feet.
  • The typical visibility is 30+ Metres 100+ Feet.
Dive types
Liveaboardwreckcavewallnightdriftdrysuit

Marine Life
bigsmallsharkswhalesdolphinscoralkelpshoals

Diving facilities
airrepairsinstructionguidedfriendly

Photo facilities
macrowideanglepfriendly

by Cal Romaneschi
Juvenile Wolf Eel with soft coral in background. Photo taken off the northern tip of Vancouver Island out of Port Hardy. Visibility in this area can get over 100 ft.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Orange Sea Pen. Canon G10.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Multicolor dendronotid (Dendronotus diversicolor). Canon G10.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Two orange-peel nudibranch on the wall (Tochuina tetraquetra). Canon G10.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Frosted nudibranch (Dirona albolineata).

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Basketstar (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis).

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Diamondback nudibranch (Tritonia festiva)

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Red Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus)

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Part of the SS Themis.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Greenmark hermit on Leather star (Pagurus caurinus, Dermasterias imbricata)

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Scalyhead sculpin (Artedîus harringtoni)

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Red Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus).

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Multicolor dendronotid (Dendronotus diversicolor).

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Colourful "Browning Wall".

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Proliferating anemone (Epiactis lisbethae) growing on kelp.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Sunflower starfish (Pycnopodia helianthoides), the speedest and largest sea star on the planet is a voracious predator.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Decorator crab in white bed.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Ooohh! Grunt sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsoni).

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Frosted nudibranch (Dirona albolineata)

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Red Irish Lord and Monterey Sea Lemon nudi out of the dark.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
My wife Bea with an Orange Sea Pen.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Kelp.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Underwater northwest pacific life.

by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Orange peel nudibranch.

by Rick Tegeler
Hermissinda....Pacific North coast
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