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Browning Pass

Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia, Canada · 12–40m · advanced · semi

Narrow channel off northern Vancouver Island, its walls carpeted in soft corals and anemones. Cold, current-driven, and dived on slack water.

Conditions today

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marginal

Marginal — 0.4m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.

Limiting factor: period

Wave height
0.5–0.7m
Wave period
4.5–5.7s
Wind chop
0–0.4m
Sea temp
15.4–15.9°C

Ranges span today's hours. Wave height here is the raw sea state — the rating scales it for how exposed the site is. Semi-exposed — partial protection, so swell is scored at three-quarters of its open-water height.

Next few days

  • TodayMarginal — 0.4m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • FridayExcellent — calm morning with 0.3m effective waves.excellent
  • SaturdayExcellent — calm morning with 0.2m effective waves.excellent

Each day is scored over its morning dive window, the same as today's rating.

Dive briefing

AI-generated

This is an advanced site in a narrow channel with walls carpeted in soft corals and anemones. You'll dive on slack water in cold water running 15.4 to 15.9°C. The site is rated marginal today due to short-period chop making the conditions less favourable, though the sea state itself is modest at 0.5 to 0.7 metres.

Divers commonly log Red Irish Lord and Scalyhead Sculpin here, along with rockfish species including Copper and China Rockfish. Sharpnose and Bering Hermit Crabs are often recorded on the walls. Kelp Greenling sightings are frequent, and humpback whales have been logged by divers at the site, though sightings vary with the season.

Written by Claude (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) from the rating, forecast, and sightings on this page — it has no other source and cannot look anything up. Treat it as a summary, not as local knowledge.

Commonly seen here

Most-recorded species near this site, ranked by research-grade iNaturalist sightings from divers, snorkelers, and naturalists.

Species come from iNaturalist — research-grade sightings logged by divers, snorkelers, and naturalists nearby. The ranking reflects what people photograph most, not guaranteed abundance. Ask a local operator what's actually being seen. Species names link to iNaturalist for range maps, seasonality and more photos. Photos by iNaturalist contributors under Creative Commons licences — individual credit on hover.