Ansell Point Dive Site

Popular scuba and freediving site.

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What you'll see (18)

Ochre Sea StarPisaster ochraceusseen 305× near here

Leather StarDermasterias imbricataseen 137× near here

Mottled StarEvasterias troscheliiseen 115× near here

giant California sea cucumberApostichopus californicusseen 114× near here

Dungeness CrabMetacarcinus magisterseen 81× near here

Yellow Shore CrabHemigrapsus oregonensisseen 77× near here

Blackeye GobyRhinogobiops nicholsiiseen 76× near here

Sylvia Earle's CadlinaCadlina sylviaearleaeseen 76× near here

Nanaimo DoridAcanthodoris nanaimoensisseen 66× near here

Red Rock CrabCancer productusseen 64× near here

Quillback RockfishSebastes maligerseen 64× near here

Copper RockfishSebastes caurinusseen 63× near here

Slime StarPteraster tesselatusseen 63× near here

Stubby BobtailRossia pacificaseen 60× near here

Kelp GreenlingHexagrammos decagrammusseen 56× near here

Common Feather StarFlorometra serratissimaseen 55× near here

Noble DoridPeltodoris nobilisseen 48× near here

Rose Sun StarCrossaster papposusseen 48× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

12,806km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 4 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug.

From 31,130 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~20h 15m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightVancouver (YVR)~19h 36mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~9 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Dive boatAnsell Point Dive Site~30 minThe last leg is always a boat — a dive site has no address.

📍 Ansell Point Dive Site on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Vancouver

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Island: Bowyer Island
Country: Canada
Marks: 49°23.812'N 123°15.122'W
Position: 49.3969, -123.2520

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.