This world-class dive site is only 3 km northwest of the mouth of Pender Harbour. It offers a breathtaking 80-metre vertical drop wall, giant cloud sponges, chimney sponges, octopi, and a colourful medley of anemones, corals, starfish, and rockfish. This is the highlight of the day. The area around the Thormanby Islands deserves exploring. Grand Island, with its hydrocorals, gorgonians, and king crabs, features an abyssal wall where rock fish, rat fish, and sculpins mingle among the bull kelp.
Access is by boat, and be sure to have a tender in the crew to protect from boat traffic.
This shore dive offers a steep, open ravine to the north, and rocky drop and wall towards a little island to the south. You can drive almost right to the water's edge, and except for some boulders and logs, the entry is easy. This site has potential as a night dive. This shore dive on Francis Peninsula offers a safe and pleasant dive on stormy days. Moon snails, green anemones, purple crabs, blackeye gobies, flounders, and sponges are found below 20 metres.