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Pacific Pro Dive & Marine Adventures run several sightseeing, whale watching and marine eco tours every week. Add to that multiple dive charters and water taxis and you have yourself a pretty constant sea faring operation. So when we say "wow", you know we mean it! A scheduled marine tour this week was paid a visit by an unexpected, but welcome visitor, a humpback whale that breached out of nowhere, beautifully rising above the surface, before causing a mini tidal wave as it fell back down. "I was almost too scared to hit the shutter button!" says Bill Coltart, skipper of the marine tour...

It’s the Bahamas! You know, that almost mythical country used as a basis for any kind of paradise ever. It’s very name even means "Great Land of the Valiant & Noble Lord”. It has a tropical climate, often sunny and dry, the Bahamas gets a whopping 3000 hours of glorious sunlight per year which means there has never been a report of freeze in the Bahamas. No frost. Ever. There’s your first reason right there!  Exuma Cays Land & Sea Park, part of a nationwide system of 25 parks, are all maintained, run and funded by a non government, non-profit organization is actually...

Steller sea lions love British Columbia. They pass these early spring days by sunbathing on the rocks off Vancouver Island, enjoying nothing more than dipping in and out the ocean to cool off… and saying hello to the local scuba divers! Scuba diving with sea lions is an incredible experience, an animal encounter like no other. You can’t wonder into the middle of a pack of buffalo on the Serengeti plains. But off Vancouver Island, you can get up close and personal with steller sea lions. Named after naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, who first described them in 1741, the steller sea lion...

Located between the islands of Utila and Guanaja, Roatán is the largest of the seven Honduras Bay Islands, located in the Caribbean Sea. Approximately 77 kilometres long, and 8 kilometres at it's widest point, the island has two municipalities; Jose Santos Guardiola and Cayos Cochinos. With a total of 154 km of rich, Carribean coastline, Roatán, Honduras is the divers paradise. Located near the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef - the largest barrier reef in the Caribbean Sea (and second largest in the world after Australia's), it has become the focus of Roatán's booming tourism trade. It's history though paints a different picture; Christopher Columbus visited the island on...

Canucks Autism Network member Paul took part in his first ever SCUBA experience with his dad, and uncle Bill Coltart from Pacific Pro Dive. To quote him 5 minutes into the session "I'm doing this for the rest of my life!".   Thanks to our awesome team at Pacific Pro Dive with Helen Whitaker and Chris Broadbent!