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// June 22nd, 2010 // No Comments » // USA Dive Guide
You hearty adventurer types who leap at the chance to submerge yourself in water so cold it would freeze solid if not for the currents, read on. The rest of you, hop a plane for Hawaii.
// June 22nd, 2010 // 2 Comments » // USA Dive Guide
Ghostly plumose anemones shroud the peak of Tyler Rock, glowing in the diffuse emerald light. Descending through the narrow canyon that splits the crest of the reef, we drop quickly to a sandy ledge at 70 feet. Suddenly, a massive shark appears, swimming straight toward us. Twelve feet long and as big as a barrel, it moves with effortless grace, closing fast. In seconds it’s within touching distance, near enough that I can count the six distinctive gill slits and stare into coal-black eyes as the Volkswagen-sized shark cruises by, leaving us in its powerful wake.
// June 22nd, 2010 // No Comments » // USA Dive Guide
As we arrived in Bamfield on a cool October morning, the rain started to pour and a violent wind made it seem all the colder. Tired, dirty and wet from a four-hour cruise along Barkley Sound by packet freighter, we were still too excited about diving this wild coast to be discouraged by the weather.
// June 22nd, 2010 // 2 Comments » // USA Dive Guide
The Adams River is running red against the current. Upriver as far as I can see, the shallows seethe with the violent splashing of ragged fins, green toothy beaks, decaying corpses and wriggling scarlet bodies. This October, Nature is on schedule for sockeye salmon spawning. And in this seeming chaos, everything is as Nature intended it to be.
