Active Pinnacle with 49th Parallel Dive Charters.

We found this excellent dive quite by chance. We were coming back from maple bay with the depth sounder on and I happened to look at it just as we went over this huge rock not marked on the chart. I hit the mark button on the GPS and watched the sounder as the rock then disappeared behind us. We went back a few weeks later and dropped a keen group of divers in to explore it an they all came back with an incredible number of critters that they had seen. We could not wait to dive it ourselves and so did shortly after. In our dive we discovered that indeed it is a small pinnacle surrounded by 100 feet plus of water. The top of it on a high tide comes to within 30 feet of the surface. We anchored on the lee side of it to descend down this wall at least 60 feet tall starting about 35 feet below the surface.

On our dive we managed to swim to the far northern end then double back to find the southern end. Between these to points we were able to find numerous Tiger Rockfish, Lingcod, Hairy spine crabs, a Helmut crab, various sponges, a Rhinoceros crab and a variety of other gunnels and sculpins.

To say the least this was a fantastic new dive site, which as we explore and map more of it will become one of our feature dives.