Dive Review of Hornby Island Diving in
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Hornby Island Diving, Sep, 2013, by Larry A. Malato, WA, US ( Reviewer 3 reports). Report 7335.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
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Comments	Hornby Island is a beautiful location. Isolated, quiet,and somewhat rustic. This is the North West. The food was well prepared, fresh, tasty and plentiful. The boat is beautifully designed and robustly constructed for diving. The diving was good, but not excellent. Could have just been the time of year but we saw no GPO, only one Wolf Eel, and not a lot of other fish. We did encounter beautiful Sea Lions. We did a couple of deep dramatic technical walls that filled the bill nicely for technical diving. Bring your own mix. No helium is available. Nitrox of any % is available. I do believe there are much more shallow dives available but we were dove a mixture of deeps and moderates depths. The Captain/owner is very knowledgeable regarding his boat and currents and is on the money with the pick ups. Currents can be strong. We dove two dives a day. The negative was that the boat is located some distance from the lodge and tanks needed to be wheeled up to the lodge for fills after each dive. Rinse facilities were limited. There was no crew to help with heavy technical gear and even after offering to pay extra for help moving doubles the owners missed an opportunity to make us happy in this respect. Be prepared to carry your gear four times a day. This gets old after a couple of days of deep diving. The sleeping arrangements are dormatory-like with small rooms. Two bathrooms for up to 26 people. We were lucky that we had only four. The owners/family chose to join us in the dining room for each meal. They are very nice folks but we would have preferred less owner participation at meal times. The owners have been responsive to our feedback and may have improved services since we were there in September. A good place to get away from it all and dive or enjoy being very-very cozy with a larger group of good friends.
Websites	Hornby Island Diving
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Florida Keys, Roatan, St. Croix, Grand Cayman, Great Lakes, Maui, Roatan, Texas Gulf, Cosumel, Puget Sound, Naniamo, San Juan Islands
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	52-56°F / 11-13°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	30-80 Ft/ 9-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	We were a small group of divers with two differnt levels of goals. Two of us dove technical profiles and two dove recreational depths without restrictions. [Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals	N/A	Tropical Fish	N/A
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Since we were a small group there was adequate table space in the lodge for cameras and equipment. Bath tub for camera rinse. A large group may be a little crowded.

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Dive Review of Hornby Island Diving in Canada/British Columbia

Hornby Island Diving, Sep, 2013,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Hornby Island Diving in
Canada/British Columbia