Scuba Diving in Nanoose Bay: Every Shore Dive Site on the Peninsula
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Key takeaways
- Five shore dive sites sit on the Nanoose peninsula, and all of them are beach entries. None require a boat.
- Madrona Point is the best known, with four named walls running from roughly 60 feet to 90 feet.
- Giant Pacific octopus and wolf eels hold established dens along the Madrona Point walls.
- Visibility is best from late fall through early spring. Water is cold year-round and drysuits are standard.
- There are no facilities at any of the sites. The nearest air fills are in Nanaimo and Parksville.
Nanoose Bay has more well-known shore diving than any other stretch of comparable coastline on eastern Vancouver Island. Five sites along the Nanoose peninsula are dived regularly, ranging from sheltered training bays to…
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