Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Here is a compilation of all the amazing things I saw while scuba diving / freediving off Vancouver Island, BC (Canada) in 2024. Some highlights include:
- sea lions on Jan 1st
- giant Pacific octopus hunting
- making national news for my footage of a seal hunting an octopus
- getting swarmed by a school of anchovies
- yelloweye rockfish (juveniles & adults)
- herring spawn
- 2 hooded nudibranchs with egg mass
- giant nudibranch getting sucked in by an anemone
- northern lights over the ocean
- diving/camping weekend at China Creek
- ratfish egg cases
- painted greenling courting dance
- red brotulas
- Colleen's 200th dive & my 300th dive
- HMCS Saskatchewan wreck
- Port Hardy, Browning Pass
- basket star & pink gorgonian
- Emerald Princess Mermaid Statue at Saltery Bay
- sockeye salmon in Stamp River
- pink salmon in Oyster River Potholes
- Rendezvous Dive Adventures in Barkley Sound
- octopus bite
- longest dive ever (95 min)
- thyroid surgery
- opalescent squid eating a herring