For the Record - Don't forget the Canadians

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For the Record - Don't forget the Canadians

In 1988 Sheck Exley, one of the greatest technical divers of all time entered a cave in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Almost eleven hours later he emerged breaking the previous deep cave mixed-gas diving record by 124ffw reaching an astounding depth of 780ffw. The previous record was his own. These like many records set by divers, including Canadian Dr. George Benjamin, trailed a path for today’s divers.

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Passageways Through Time

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Passageways Through Time

It is difficult to explain the feeling of weightlessness and wonder that the warm Caribbean Sea offers a diver – especially to a non-diver. It is even more difficult to describe the experience of diving through a tunnel filled with brightly coloured soft and hard corals. Coral caves however, add a whole new complexity to overhead diving.

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Top 10 Technical Dives on Vancouver Island

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Top 10 Technical Dives on Vancouver Island

We asked you and you replied. We solicited the public opinion on what they felt was Vancouver Island’s top 10 technical dives. These are not your run of the mill recreational dives; to qualify as a technical dive, a site must require some form of advanced diver training or equipment.

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The Devils Bath: Setting Two Canadian Records

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The Devils Bath: Setting Two Canadian Records

Imagine a small pool of water sunk in the middle of high rocky cliff edges and cathedral pines. This Canuck Billabong is set deep amidst a temperate rain forest and is a karst phenomenon fed and drained by a number of springs and siphons that have passages branching for many kilometers and includes a mountainous escarpment. The second of a two part series on Canadian Cave Diving.

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