Victoria Vis conditions?

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If you can get there on a good current day, Ten mile would be worth it with only 5' vis.

There is so much life there, you would be hard pressed to find a square inch that doesn't have some macroscopic animal on it. Most things are small, so you end up getting pretty close for a look and vis doesn't matter much. There is bigger life too, we played with a good sized GP Octo (and a small one), and we saw the largest Cabezon that any of us have ever seen, along with many buffalo sculpin, a brown irish lord and various rock fish. On a poor vis day, you would miss out on the panoramic views of the kelp forest, and the walls covered in Plumose, but you would see so much, I don't think you would feel you missed out.
 
Well looks like I have 20 teachers to smack up the side of the head for booking my school on what sounds like a great dive I had to miss.
 
Willis PT yesterday was a good 40ft under the 30ft surface layer.

Al
 
I did a couple of dives in Saanich Inlet today. The first one was around Misery Bay/Christmas Point and it was nice and clear near the surface (maybe 30' vis), but below 20 feet deep it started to get murky. I went down to about 130' and vis was still only about 15 feet. There was lots of bits floating around. The second dive was at Elbow Point and it was clear in the shallows there too, but between 20 and 60 feet deep, vis was only around 10 feet. It started to clear up below that and by the time I was below 100', vis was maybe 40', but dark.
 
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