Dive Sites in Canada

100 dive sites and underwater attractions

Ontario

Sligo (Wreck)

📍 Toronto
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

The Columbus

📍 Unorganized North Algoma
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

W. L. Wetmore (Wreck)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.2656° North, 81.7093° West.

Tasmania (Wrack)

📍 Leamington
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 41.7917° North, 82.5053° West.

Wilma (Wrack)

📍 Haldimand
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wolfe Islander II (Wrack)

📍 Frontenac Islands
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Munson (Wrack)

📍 Kingston
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Niagara II (sandsucker)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 25m
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Maximum depth: 25.0 meters. Located at 45.2500° North, 81.6026° West.

Eastcliffe Hall (Wrack)

📍 South Dundas
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

James C. King (Wreck)

📍 Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.2678° North, 81.7150° West.

Wawinet (Wrack)

📍 Georgian Bay Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Sweepstakes (schooner)

📍 Northern Bruce Peninsula
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a distributed_remains wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.2552° North, 81.6809° West.

City of Grand Rapids (steamer)

📍 Tobermory
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.2549° North, 81.6808° West.

Forest City (Wreck)

📍 Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 45m
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Maximum depth: 45.0 meters. Located at 45.3152° North, 81.5570° West.

Lycoming (Wrack)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 42.2513° North, 81.8897° West.

Charles P. Minch (Wreck)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.2942° North, 81.7101° West.

Philo Scoville (Wreck)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.2689° North, 81.6972° West.

Dive Site 9986223231

📍 Fort Erie
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

City of Sheboygan (Wrack)

📍 Loyalist
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

William H. Wolf (Wrack)

📍 St. Clair
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 11533987234

📍 Ottawa
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

The Tugs (Wreck)

📍 Tobermory
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.2584° North, 81.6609° West.

Caroline Rose (Schooner)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.2422° North, 81.5762° West.

Comet (Wrack)

📍 Frontenac Islands
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Lock 27

📍 Edwardsburgh/Cardinal
🌊 Pacific Ocean

M. I. Wilcox (Wreck)

📍 Town of Essex
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Monarch (Wreck)

📍 Point Edward
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Katie Eccles (Wreck)

📍 Prince Edward
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 30m
wreck

Michigan (Wrack)

📍 Tiny
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 4m
wreck

Merida (Wrack)

📍 West Elgin
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Lock 21 Dive Site

📍 South Stormont
🌊 Pacific Ocean

The Conestoga

📍 Edwardsburgh/Cardinal
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Conestoga was an iron-clad wooden steam freighter constructed in 1878. In 1922, Conestoga caught fire at Cardinal, Ontario and sank.

Acadia

📍 Unorganized North Algoma
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wreck Wee Hawk

📍 Edwardsburgh/Cardinal
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Save Ontario Shipwrecks (SOS) is a Provincial Heritage Organization in Ontario, Canada. SOS is a public charitable organization which operates through Local Chapter Committees supported by a Provincial Board of Directors and Provincial Executive.

Rothesay (Shipwreck)

📍 Augusta
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Newfoundland and Labrador

Dive Site 6809536683

📍 Red Bay
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

Ship and small boat wrecks / Épaves de navire et petit bateau / Ontzi eta itsasontzi txikien naufragioak / Naufragios de barco y bote pequeño

SS Lord Strathcona

🌊 Atlantic Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 30m
wreck

S.S. Ilex

📍 Fermeuse
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

SS Saganaga

🌊 Atlantic Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 30m
wreck

PM-27

🌊 Atlantic Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 25m
wreck

British Columbia

Wain Rock

📍 North Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Saxe Point

📍 Esquimalt
🌊 Pacific Ocean

S. F. Tolmie

📍 Esquimalt
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 48.4174° North, 123.4022° West.

Whytecliff Park Dive Site

📍 West Vancouver
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Popular diving area for beginners and advanced divers.

M.V. Shirley

📍 Mission
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

McKenzie Bright

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Little Group Islands

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Ten Mile Point

📍 Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Race Rocks - West and Central

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Arbutus Island

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

HMCS Annapolis

📍 Area F (West Howe Sound)
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

HMCS Annapolis was an Annapolis-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later, the Canadian Forces. She was the second Canadian naval unit to carry this name. Named for the Annapolis River that flows through Nova Scotia, the ship entered service in 1964, the last of the St. Laurent-class design. Serving through the Cold War, Annapolis was decommissioned in 1998 before going through a protracted legal battle for use as an artificial reef.

USS Tattnall (DD-125)

📍 Area A (Baynes Sound)
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

WWI & WWII US Navy Destroyer, sunk as a breakwater in 1947

White Lady (Repulse Rock)

📍 District Of Highlands
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Reay Island

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Forest Island

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Tozier Rock

📍 Area A (Mill Bay / Malahat)
🌊 Pacific Ocean

North Cod Reef

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean
reef

Dive Site 6615738633

📍 Belcarra
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Canoe Rock

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Cooper Reef

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

HMCS Gatineau

📍 Area A (Baynes Sound)
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

WWII destroyer sunk as part of breakwater

The Ready Shipwreck

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Popular scuba and freediving site

Discovery Island

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 10538093267

📍 Pitt Meadows
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Race Rocks - Great Race

📍 Metchosin
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Willis Point

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 4384969889

📍 Area C (Long Beach)
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Visible sticking out of sand at low tide.

Barnard Castle

📍 Metchosin
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 48.3121° North, 123.5414° West.

Mouat Reef

📍 Oak Bay
🌊 Pacific Ocean
reef

Arachne Reef

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean
reef

SS Valencia

📍 Area A (Bamfield)
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

SS Valencia was an iron-hulled passenger steamer built for the Red D Line for service between Venezuela and New York City. She was built in 1882 by William Cramp and Sons, one year after the construction of her sister ship Caracas. She was a 1,598-ton vessel, 252 feet (77 m) in length. In 1897, Valencia was deliberately attacked by the Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The next year, she became a coastal passenger liner on the U.S.

Dive Site 10172815779

📍 Pitt Meadows
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Spring Bay

📍 Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Senanus Island

📍 Central Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Porteau Cove Diving Area

📍 Area D (Elaho/Garibaldi)
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Several artificial reefs and wrecks

South Cod Reef

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean
reef

Kelvin Grove Dive Site

📍 Lions Bay
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Manitoba

Dive Site 2444642239

📍 West Hawk Lake
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Miss Piggy

📍 Churchill
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Nova Scotia

Dive Site 802956298

📍 Sable Island
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 43.9452° North, 59.8491° West.

Québec

Dive Site 891150106

📍 L'Île-d'Anticosti
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 49.5977° North, 63.7806° West.

Quebec

Dive Site 1209334135

📍 L'Isle-aux-Coudres
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 1564142895

📍 Chandler
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

Nunavut

Ship was abandoned in 1848, though date of sinking is unknown. Was found at 68°54′13″N 98°56′18″W in 2016 by the Artic Research Foundation.

About Diving in Canada

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