Race Rocks - West and Central

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What you'll see (20)

Giant Plumose AnemoneMetridium farcimenseen 37× near here

Dock ShrimpPandalus danaeseen 30× near here

Red-eye MedusaPolyorchis penicillatusseen 26× near here

Rockweed isopodPentidotea wosnesenskiiseen 22× near here

Stout Coastal ShrimpHeptacarpus brevirostrisseen 18× near here

Pacific HerringClupea pallasiiseen 18× near here

Sunflower Sea StarPycnopodia helianthoidesseen 15× near here

Saddleback GunnelPholis ornataseen 15× near here

Egg-yolk JellyPhacellophora camtschaticaseen 14× near here

Tidepool SculpinOligocottus maculosusseen 14× near here

Frilled DogwinkleNucella lamellosaseen 14× near here

Graceful Kelp CrabPugettia gracilisseen 13× near here

Victoria's Crystal JellyAequorea victoriaseen 13× near here

Red Rock CrabCancer productusseen 12× near here

Monterey DoridDoris montereyensisseen 11× near here

Threespine SticklebackGasterosteus aculeatusseen 10× near here

Gooseneck BarnaclePollicipes polymerusseen 10× near here

Aggregating AnemoneAnthopleura elegantissimaseen 10× near here

Red-banded Transparent ShrimpHeptacarpus sitchensisseen 10× near here

Kelp GreenlingHexagrammos decagrammusseen 10× near here

Planning a trip

8–13 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

12,860km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 18 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul.

From 44,850 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

~22h 39m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightVancouver (YVR)~19h 36mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~39 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~1h 54mAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatRace Rocks - West and Central~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Race Rocks - West and Central 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: Bentinck Island
Country: Canada
Marks: 48°18.041'N 123°32.347'W
Position: 48.3007, -123.5391

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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.