The last time I was here was about 12 years ago. I finally came out again on a SEA Dive charter on Feb. 26, 2022. Visibility was maybe 20', which is ok for here, but the water was full of plankton chunks, which made wide-angle photography frustrating.
The mooring line is now attached to the bridge so that's the first area I visited.
After swimming through the bridge, I swam forward to the area around the gun.
I continued to swim forward towards the tip of the bow.
I swam back past the gun and the bridge and spent a good part of the dive in the area around the mast.
I had a look at the top of the funnel. It's rare to see full-grown adult rockfish nowadays, but on top of the funnel I saw one of the biggest copper rockfish I've ever seen.
Back to swimming around the area at the base of the mast:
I've only been diving this wreck a few times at widely-spaced intervals, but every time I come here, there is more invertebrate life growing on it. The amount of plumose anemones, giant barnacles and Northern feather duster tube worms is impressive. Due to the current, this ship seems to have the most densely-packed invertebrate life of all the artificial reef destroyers scattered throughout B.C.
