Jesse Island
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About this site
Jesse Island is a boat-accessible dive site near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It has walls, ledges and sandy bottoms, and depths reach about 24 metres (80 feet). The water is cold, 7 to 13°C.
Wolf eels, octopus, nudibranchs and large lingcod live here, and sea whips grow on the site. Plumose anemones in white and orange cover the rock.
The site can have strong currents, so dive it at slack tide.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
OctopusOctopusConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Ochre Sea StarPisaster ochraceusReported here · unconfirmed
North Pacific Spiny DogfishSqualus suckleyiReported here · unconfirmed
NudibranchNudibranchReported here · unconfirmed
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