
The warm Pacific Ocean currents give Vancouver Island one of the mildest climates in Canada and that’s why the local waters are so sought-after not only by cold water divers. Jacques Cousteau once described the area as “the best temperate water diving in the world, second only to the Red Sea” and that might be the second reason divers flock to the Mid-Island rather than traveling the distance to plunge into the blue of the Indian Ocean.