Campbell River, BC

I've added a couple of new pages to my photos site from the Campbell River trip a couple of weeks ago. These were shot on (horrors) film. B)

See them at:

http://www.JackConnick.com/deepics under "Campbell River, BC"

Comments, questions and advice always welcome.

Enjoy,

Jack

Love to see BC pictures always.

You should come join us in Port Hardy sometime for the trip up there. I venture to say it gets better the further north you go.

ps If I am not mistaken it was my friends who had to go and find them in the wreck and pull them out.

Yeah, we have a group that goes up to God's Pocket once a year. A long ways and a week trip that's hard to schedule. But it is on the list of places.

Mike's is just so cheap and accessible. The weekend up there was $208US all inclusive, 2.5 days. Gotta love that Canadian Peso.

It was a tragedy that those guys were killed, I don't hear of many others penetrating that wreck. Mike sure discourages it, and he used to say it was ok. Very silted up. It was funny but there was much more growth 5 years ago on it! Probably time of year, I was there then in Oct.

Glad you enjoyed the pics/report.

Jack

Might check Mike's out sometime. We always go with Sea Experience live aboard as we know Chris and Belinda. I have not tried God's pocket but, they would probably shoot me if I did.

Do you have a little info on them? Where do they leave form, etc. URL?

God's Pocket has been getting more expensive lately.

Jack

http://www.seaventurer.com/

Here is a thread on the trip. Some is just banter but, that's because it is a great group of people.

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=8&t=1212

Tell them Todd sent you. I'll let you know when we book next years trip. This August is full and includes 4 wetpixel members including the world famous cybergoldfish,markh,and randapex

Todd, yes, while Campbell River is awesome, it does get better still (significantly) as you venture north to Port Hardy.

I've done DynaMike's, but you can also do Abyssal. Pricing is similar, and each operator has advantages over the other. Both outfits are great.

As for the wreck, I love diving the Columbia. It's true, I've seen over the last 5 years it's gotten reaaaaally silted up inside. I buzzed from Starboard to Port in a scooter once - sorry for anyone who had to enjoy the silt for several weeks afterward It's not as safe to penetrate as before, though you can easily go through the superstructure w/o incident.

As for God's Pocket, yes it's expensive, but awesome. The liveaboards must be quite expensive too. The thing about God's is that they generally dive twice a day on slack. I think with a liveaboard you might have more opportunities to log bottom time. Mind you, at God's you are too busy eating to get any more dives in.

If schedules permit, one really should try to log a couple of dives at Campbell River on the way to Port Hardy. You could even do the 6 gill thing at Hornby Island on the way up.