Kents Beach, Powell River, anyone dove there yet?

[99north]

I was referred to dive at a place called Kent's Beach in Powell River. Has anyone dove there and if so how was it?
The web page looks good and there's a map of the dives as well. Its a long way to go on speculation so I thought I'd get some input before we made reservations.

Any help or input would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
99north

 

[Hyper-limits]

The cabin are great they supply a rinse station and hot water shower, diving at the beach is not bad. 9 of us just spend last week-end there we dove the Gulfstream and Ball point and Agamemnon channel to see the deep water coral.

More here:

zeeinkydarkness.com • View topic - Powell River Dive Weekend

Cheers

Al

 

[Wetsuit 4 life]

Did my advanced course night and navigation dives here it was nice having the cottage right next to the water. But unless we did something wrong we found nothing but sandy bottom and never went any deeper then 40 feet. There might be more to the site, the really nice thing about the cottages is that they are in short driving distance from some other great sites such as Mermaid Cove, and the wreck of the Malahat. And the downtown night life of Powell River which.

Cheers
Dave

 

[Slamfire]

I wrote a very brief review with maps of Kent's Beach here: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/5430190-post5.html.

I was very impressed with the portable (by forklift) outdoor-two shower hot water rinsing station. The cabins are right in front of the ocean. During high tide you probably have to take only ten steps from the from door and you're in the water.

There is free wifi, fully equipped kitchens with pots, pans, cutlery. My cabin was floor heated and there was heating stove if we wanted to be even more toasty. There are pegs all over the place in the cabin and the rinsing station to hang your dripping scuba equipment. There also clotheslines. Overall, it is very comfortable for divers.

And I did go deeper than 40'. I think the deepest I went was 120' and I could have kept going deeper.

Rinsing Station:

 

[99north]

What was the life like?, lots of fish octo's etc etc?
viz?

 

[Slamfire]

What was the life like?, lots of fish octo's etc etc?
viz?

Viz is better than in the lower mainland. Tuwanek like. I did see several octo's -- one female guarding eggs about to hatch. Painted greenlings, kelp greenlings, various rockfish, lings, crabs closer to the shore near and in the grass fields. Tons of small nudibranches. A couple of giant ones.

 

[Skookumchuck]

You hit it nice Gabriel. When r2t, Walrus2 and I were there in May of 2008 we had some of the worst vis I've seen on the coast. At Ball Point it was pea soup till 120' but below that was very nice. I would strongly recommend getting out on a boat if at all possible.