Porteau Cove wreck diving

Porteau Cove is a great location with lots to see and several wrecks and artificial reefs plus the fact that it is a protected marine park mean that there is a ton of sealife here. To get to Porteau Cove take the Sea to Sky highway and take the exit towards Porteau Cove marine park (Not Porteau Road). Cross the train tracks into the parks parking lot near the water.

You have to hit the tide just right at Porteau Cove. If you are not diving on slack you will get swept away as a freediver. Scubadivers don’t have this problem as much because the current is worst at the surface. As a freediver, make sure you dive on a low tidal exchange, and be IN the water 30-45 minutes before low tide. This way you’ll have at least an hour of current free diving. If you can’t hit it on slack consider going to Ansell Place, or do the Whytecliff express or Whytecliff – the cut. Visibility is best around winter time, hit and miss in the summer.

Check out this map for all the diving sights. The Nakaya is hard to find as a freediver so make sure you bring a weight and float if you are going to explore that wreck. There is a buoy, connected to another buoy, connected to a concrete pad on the seafloor, somewhere next to the nakaya… Not ideal. It is the furthest buoy out if you want to try and the Nakaya is 15 – 35 meters deep. The other reefs and boats are shallower, making Porteau Cove a really good location for divers of nearly all levels.

After your dive, you can rinse your gear at a free, cold, freshwater shower.

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Jaap

Jaap is a geologist by trade and a freediver by passion. Jaap wrote the book Longer and Deeper in 2018. His book teaches how to train for freediving and spearfishing on land.

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