Dive Sites in Canada

100 dive sites and underwater attractions

Ontario

The Columbus

📍 Unorganized North Algoma
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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.

Sligo (Wreck)

📍 Toronto
🌊 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.

The Caves

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Located at 45.2456° North, 81.5234° 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

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.

Wolfe Islander II (Wrack)

📍 Frontenac Islands
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Munson (Wrack)

📍 Kingston
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Acadia

📍 Unorganized North Algoma
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Philo Scoville (Wreck)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

Comet (Wrack)

📍 Frontenac Islands
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Merida (Wrack)

📍 West Elgin
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Katie Eccles (Wreck)

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

Lock 21 Dive Site

📍 South Stormont
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Wawinet (Wrack)

📍 Georgian Bay Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Eastcliffe Hall (Wrack)

📍 South Dundas
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

M. I. Wilcox (Wreck)

📍 Town of Essex
🌊 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.

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.

William H. Wolf (Wrack)

📍 St. Clair
🌊 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.

Caroline Rose (Schooner)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

City of Sheboygan (Wrack)

📍 Loyalist
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Monarch (Wreck)

📍 Point Edward
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9986223231

📍 Fort Erie
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Henry C. Daryaw (Wrack)

📍 Elizabethtown-Kitley
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 44.5261° North, 75.7626° West.

Lillie Parsons (Wrack)

📍 Elizabethtown-Kitley
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Burnt Barge

📍 Terrace Bay Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Newfoundland and Labrador

S.S. Ilex

📍 Fermeuse
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

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 Saganaga

🌊 Atlantic Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 30m
wreck

SS Lord Strathcona

🌊 Atlantic Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 30m
wreck

British Columbia

Arbutus Island

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Saxe Point

📍 Esquimalt
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Barnard Castle

📍 Metchosin
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

Willis Point

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

McKenzie Bright

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Porteau Cove Diving Area

📍 Area D (Elaho/Garibaldi)
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Several artificial reefs and wrecks

Race Rocks - West and Central

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Canoe Rock

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Cooper Reef

📍 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.

Little Group Islands

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 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.

Senanus Island

📍 Central Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Ten Mile Point

📍 Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

North Cod Reef

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean
reef

M.V. Shirley

📍 Mission
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Reay Island

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Wain Rock

📍 North Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

White Lady (Repulse Rock)

📍 District Of Highlands
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Race Rocks - Great Race

📍 Metchosin
🌊 Pacific Ocean

The Ready Shipwreck

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Popular scuba and freediving site

Forest Island

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

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.

South Cod Reef

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean
reef

USS Tattnall (DD-125)

📍 Area A (Baynes Sound)
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

Kelvin Grove Dive Site

📍 Lions Bay
🌊 Pacific Ocean

HMCS Gatineau

📍 Area A (Baynes Sound)
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

WWII destroyer sunk as part of breakwater

Tozier Rock

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

Discovery Island

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

G.B. Church

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 48.6700° North, 123.2867° West.

Dive Site 10538093141

📍 Pitt Meadows
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dyer Rocks

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 4384969889

📍 Area C (Long Beach)
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Visible sticking out of sand at low tide.

Dive Site 10172815779

📍 Pitt Meadows
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Arachne Reef

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean
reef

Manitoba

Miss Piggy

📍 Churchill
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 2444642239

📍 West Hawk Lake
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 2444642235

📍 West Hawk Lake
🌊 Pacific Ocean

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.

Nunavut

HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy named after Erebus, the personification of darkness in Greek mythology.

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.

Quebec

Dive Site 1209334135

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

Dive Site 1564142895

📍 Chandler
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

About Diving in Canada

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