Newfoundland, Vancouver Island listed among world's great dive sites

[Bulldog]

TORONTO - The waters off Newfoundland and Vancouver Island are among "the world's great dive sites" cited in the new Fodor's book "Adventure Travel."

Second World War shipwrecks off Newfoundland's Bell Island are accessible to scuba-divers year-round, the book says. The province also offers the opportunity to dive among icebergs, with the best time being May or June.

Marine highlights in the seas around Vancouver Island include orca whales, wolf eels and octopuses, the book says.

Other top-rated dive locations include the Galapagos Islands, Mozambique, Oman, Papua New Guinea and Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

The book considers adventure travel around the world in various categories - land, animal, vehicle, water and air.

Other water-related experiences in Canada mentioned include canoeing in Ontario - the province has "possibly the widest range of canoeing adventures anywhere in the world" - and in Banff National Park; sea-kayaking at the northern end of B.C.'s Johnstone Strait; and Arctic sea-kayaking in the fiords of Kane Basin, Ellesmere Island.

http://travel.canoe.ca/Travel/News/2008/10/21/7152781-cp.html

[Gambitt]

Thanks for the ink Bulldog. 

I've always wanted to dive "Down East", but just never had the opertunity.

[Bulldog]

I have also wanted to the rock the landscape is great fro what I have read