I tried for the islet again with visiting divers Andrew and Peter on March 5, 2011. We dove when the Race Passage current table was showing an ebbing current about an hour before slack. When we tried to swim for the islet, we realised that the current was actually flooding. It was the strongest current I've felt so far at this site. We couldn't make much headway swimming against it on the surface so we descended to try swimming out along the bottom. Andrew was swept away and ended up finding another reef closer to Sooke about 20-30 feet deep. Peter and I struggled on and eventually, after using more than half my air, we reached the islet. After waiting for my CO2 headache to subside, we decided to carry on with our dive. Visibility was back down to around 15 feet. Even with half-full tanks, we still managed to do a tour of most of the reef around the main islet. We didn't feel much current at all on the far side of the Islets. The swim back (drifting sideways with the current) across the channel only took a few minutes.
