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The water looks mighty blue from
above, but underneath, it surrounds a world of colour to rival the tropics. This
cloud sponge would rather be nowhere else than in the nutrient-rich cold water off
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 e know you've seen the
photographs. Those endless stretches of white sand and vast acres of ocean as clear as
crystal. Remember those magazine ads featuring cultured folks with piles of cash sunning
themselves on their 60 foot yachts, and you could actually see the boat's keel through
that transparent Caribbean Sea? Know why? By virtue of their temperature, and wherever
they are without reefs, tropical waters have less oxygen than their northern brethren,
less plankton, and less life (except for those rich, cultured people) to get in the way of
the sun.Now there isn't a lot of
white sand up here (except on Savary Island), and the water isn't warm (except around
Savary Island), but our ocean is chalk full of life. We are world-renowned for the
abundance of marine life beneath the waves around Powell River. And people who care about
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here, from the government on down to local entrepreneurs, are doing their best to make
sure that they can get you to the best dive spots. They've even helped out by augmenting
the natural dive sites with the odd sunken thing, like a 9 foot bronze mermaid, and a
large ship from World War II.But
let's face it, Creation holds the best cards and wins hands down when it comes to
"sunken things." How about this Puget Sound King Crab (below)
wrested unceremoniously from his perch on the ocean floor.
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