Dive Sites in Canada

100 dive sites and underwater attractions

Ontario

Tasmania (Wrack)

📍 Leamington
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

Sligo (Wreck)

📍 Toronto
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wolfe Islander II (Wrack)

📍 Frontenac Islands
🌊 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.

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.

Eastcliffe Hall (Wrack)

📍 South Dundas
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wawinet (Wrack)

📍 Georgian Bay Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wilma (Wrack)

📍 Haldimand
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Munson (Wrack)

📍 Kingston
🌊 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.

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.

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.

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.

City of Sheboygan (Wrack)

📍 Loyalist
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

William H. Wolf (Wrack)

📍 St. Clair
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Lycoming (Wrack)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

Katie Eccles (Wreck)

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

Philo Scoville (Wreck)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

Dive Site 11533987234

📍 Ottawa
🌊 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.

Dive Site 9986223231

📍 Fort Erie
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Merida (Wrack)

📍 West Elgin
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Comet (Wrack)

📍 Frontenac Islands
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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.

Monarch (Wreck)

📍 Point Edward
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Rothesay (Shipwreck)

📍 Augusta
🌊 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.

Michigan (Wrack)

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

Caroline Rose (Schooner)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

The Caves

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

Acadia

📍 Unorganized North Algoma
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Lock 27

📍 Edwardsburgh/Cardinal
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Brown Brothers (Wrack)

📍 Norfolk
🌊 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

S. F. Tolmie

📍 Esquimalt
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

Saxe Point

📍 Esquimalt
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Wain Rock

📍 North Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Whytecliff Park Dive Site

📍 West Vancouver
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Popular diving area for beginners and advanced divers.

McKenzie Bright

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

M.V. Shirley

📍 Mission
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Ten Mile Point

📍 Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Race Rocks - West and Central

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Little Group Islands

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Arbutus Island

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 10538093267

📍 Pitt Meadows
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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.

North 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

Discovery Island

📍 Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Tozier Rock

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

Reay Island

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Mouat Reef

📍 Oak Bay
🌊 Pacific Ocean
reef

The Ready Shipwreck

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Popular scuba and freediving site

Dive Site 6615738633

📍 Belcarra
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Race Rocks - Great Race

📍 Metchosin
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Arachne Reef

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean
reef

Barnard Castle

📍 Metchosin
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

Forest Island

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

White Lady (Repulse Rock)

📍 District Of Highlands
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Cooper Reef

📍 Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Canoe Rock

📍 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.

HMCS Gatineau

📍 Area A (Baynes Sound)
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

WWII destroyer sunk as part of breakwater

Dive Site 10172815779

📍 Pitt Meadows
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Spring Bay

📍 Saanich
🌊 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.

Senanus Island

📍 Central Saanich
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Manitoba

Dive Site 2444642239

📍 West Hawk Lake
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Miss Piggy

📍 Churchill
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 2444642235

📍 West Hawk Lake
🌊 Pacific Ocean

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

Corfu Island

📍 Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

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

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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