Powell River, B.C., Canada
Is a 38 ft. diesel powered, 8 knot heavily laid up fiberglass displacement hull vessel built in 1980 to an Edwin Monk design as a west coast troller. Converted to a personal west coast exploration vehicle and day tour dive charter vessel in 2008-2009. GRADIENT operates on the North Sunshine Coast from her home port of Powell River. She moves between being based out of Powell River, Lund, Saltery Bay, Okeover Inlet and sometimes Pender Harbour. Gradient is a good stable dive platform with an easy to use custom dive ladder, large swim grid for cameras and gear, boom and lifting gear for 500 lb. and under ROV's and tech gear, that carries up to eight divers comfortably. Contact by email at bmckinn@telus.net for more information regarding rates and charter availability. We can also be found on Facebook as Bill McKinnon

Monday, October 1, 2012

Ball Point check dives

Sunday Verjall and I went out for a couple Ball Point check dives for upcoming charters.
We found a couple great sites and still have many days of exploring to do. Cloud sponges started in the 70 foot range and were plentiful,  bottom was ledges that just kept going , beautiful rock structure. A fair bit of current was encountered and good buoyancy skills are required to keep from damaging the sponges. Here's a link to some information on sponges.    CLICK HERE
Its great to have the boat back in Saltery for a couple months. The water is clearing up nicely with about 70 feet of vis thats improving quickly.Heres what we saw with the 60 mil macro. First time with a camera in my hands in a long time and going to want to take the dome to do justice to the cloud sponges as the water clarity improves.

















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  1. PatsplaceOctober 2, 2012 at 12:15 PM

    Beautiful, just plain beautiful photographs. Good on ya' Billy.

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