16:30 Ahh man, geology is so much cooler than we ever could have guessed as kids. I think what you're looking at here is likely part of the coastal belt which is a massive outpouring of granite and granodiorite from hundreds of millions of years ago. You find a lot of this above sea level in Squamish for example (Stawamus Chief is part of this formation), and it's insanely beautiful. Over millions of years these rocks were exposed by upwelling and erosion. During periods like the ice age in particular, tons of this granite was gradually weathered and broken down into the loose pebbles, stones, and boulders you see scattered around these huge slabs and other features. When the ice age ended, tons of these rocks that were broken apart by the expansion and contraction of ice, glacial movement, rains, etc were then covered by the rising ocean. What's cool is if you hop across the water to Denman and Hornby, you'll see much older sedimentary rocks full of fossils from as long as 90M years ago. The thing is, those sediments are mostly derived from the coastal belt rocks that you can see in this video. Absolutely crazy stuff. So the sandstone is tens of millions of years old, but the coastal belt is so old it has had time to erode and create over a kilometre thick sedimentary rock across the sea (it's call the Nanaimo Group if you're interested in learning more about it). Also someone might need to fact check me, I might have some dates or something slightly off, but this is the gist of it! Thanks again for an awesome video.
Duuuuuuuude, that's so helpful. Thanks so much. I would have never considered that all those rocks were placed before the oceans rose. That's extremely interesting. Geology is fascinating stuff. I'd like to include some of that stuff in my videos. Can you recommend any local books for information around Vancouver Island?
Great video. Probably a good thing you passed on the narrows those currents are crazy. There is video on YT where a tug gets in trouble pulling a barge and those currents flip the tug, it’s scary and to watch but everyone was ok.
Yeah man, we would have been gone in no time. I'm heading back there Sunday with a boat so we might have a better chance of jumping in. I've seen that video, crazy eh!! I'd be nervous to take a tug through that... Lucky no was drowned for sure.
Just waiting on my wetsuit pants and me and my wife are gettting trained and in the water. I am so excited. These videos get me so jacked. Also, your family is absolutely adorable. Keep kicking ass, your videos are awesome!
@@PNWSamson my husband replied on my account haha. We are both so excited to get in the water!! Thanks for all the inspiring Samson, we live just south of the border, hopefully we can all meet up one day for a dive!
@@HS-ob3fz I live just south of the Canadian border in a town called Bellingham. There’s a local dive shop called Gone Diving and we are doing it through there :). The owners name is Charlynn, super knowledgeable. Highly recommend :)!
Awesome little trip! My dad used to live up in medeira park so spent a lot of time at skukumchuck. Let me know if you ever want to chat earth sciences about the lower mainland. Love me some good geology! Worked as a geologist for about 10 years
Another great video. Kayak surfing the huge wave that forms there on an incoming tide was one of the most awesome things I've experienced. And the enormous whirlpools downstream scared the crap out of me. The Skook is a natural marvel and I hope I get to freedive it one day.
That's crazy man. I don't know if I would have the guys to try that. Looks like fun though! And for sure, it's pretty easy to get to. Definitely day-trip-able. Freedive it for sure!
Great video! I've been double checking your feed all week for this one. I recall that pool at 5:13 was full of bull kelp last time (late 90s) I was there. It's disappointing to see the lack of kelp and tons of urchins and interestingly not many California sea cucumbers. Hopefully the kelp rebounds at some point. Nice to see an abalone though!
Yeah man I was pretty excited when I saw that abalone too haha. And I agree, hopefully the sunstar populations increase and the urchin get munched up! I would have uploaded the video sooner but iMovie wasn't exporting my file. Kept failing. Pretty annoying to say the least! Happy you enjoyed the video!
@@PNWSamson I have the same problem with Premiere Pro. I probably need a computer with a better GPU. It will be interesting to see if the urchins starve.
@@emeraldsky8009 Yeah man. Unfortunately the purple urchin can go dormant for years without food. As soon as kelp grows, they wake up and start eating. Not sure about the green urchin.
Yeah man it was next level. Wish it was like that all the time! Apparently Skookumchuck usually has pretty decent visibility due to the current. Going back again Sunday to find out!
Truly epic video! Good to know about navionics tide function being trash. I'll try my next greenling like that! I'm sorry to hear that you have to live in a greenling-divided home. 😢😭
Haha, well if I continue cooking them that way we'll be good! We are aloud 3 per day here and they are pretty sustainable so they have that going for them. Stoked you enjoyed the video! And the tide isn't bad but the current prediction is garbage. Still a great app overall!
Hey awesome music, beautiful family, food, and just allround great showcase of coast life! Btw, we freedive and have a little cabin 15 min from skookumchuck trailhead. Look us up sometime!
Thanks, happy you liked that one! And sounds good, will do. I'd love to make it back to Skookumchuk for a dive/snorkel sometime. What's the best way to reach out?
Thanks man. Sorry, just saw I missed this response. I much prefer rockfish. I'd actually take rockfish over Lingcod too. Same with Cabezon. Greenling are pretty good, but many people won't harvest them. The meat can lightly be on the mushy side. I like them for soups or like Alex did on the BBQ
@@PNWSamson Oh man I love the Ling to eat . Thanks for the advice on the Greenling , I'd prob try them in a good east coast style chowder . I grew up on the east coast and always chucked Sculpin back and Cabezon is the same family by the looks . You say they're good , I'll take that to the bank . Thanks for your reply .
I find Navioncis the best but obviously not always accurate. That was the only time it let me down. And it was the current forecast that read incorrectly, not necessarily the tide. If your a beginner, download navioncis. It's an awesome app for a bunch of reasons.
@@PNWSamson wow awesome thank you . Love your vids so much , trying to learn as much as I can before I give it a go. Your movies are so helpful and motivating . Landing on island in a couple weeks for a few months.
Is there a way to email/chat with you? Really enjoy your videos. I’m in Washington (Everett) and looking for people to dive with. Having trouble finding people around here. Either way, thanks for the videos, you’ve inspired me to get my gills wet again🙂
16:30 Ahh man, geology is so much cooler than we ever could have guessed as kids. I think what you're looking at here is likely part of the coastal belt which is a massive outpouring of granite and granodiorite from hundreds of millions of years ago. You find a lot of this above sea level in Squamish for example (Stawamus Chief is part of this formation), and it's insanely beautiful.
Over millions of years these rocks were exposed by upwelling and erosion. During periods like the ice age in particular, tons of this granite was gradually weathered and broken down into the loose pebbles, stones, and boulders you see scattered around these huge slabs and other features. When the ice age ended, tons of these rocks that were broken apart by the expansion and contraction of ice, glacial movement, rains, etc were then covered by the rising ocean.
What's cool is if you hop across the water to Denman and Hornby, you'll see much older sedimentary rocks full of fossils from as long as 90M years ago. The thing is, those sediments are mostly derived from the coastal belt rocks that you can see in this video.
Absolutely crazy stuff. So the sandstone is tens of millions of years old, but the coastal belt is so old it has had time to erode and create over a kilometre thick sedimentary rock across the sea (it's call the Nanaimo Group if you're interested in learning more about it).
Also someone might need to fact check me, I might have some dates or something slightly off, but this is the gist of it!
Thanks again for an awesome video.
Duuuuuuuude, that's so helpful. Thanks so much. I would have never considered that all those rocks were placed before the oceans rose. That's extremely interesting.
Geology is fascinating stuff. I'd like to include some of that stuff in my videos. Can you recommend any local books for information around Vancouver Island?
Oh, and thanks for the comment. Sorry for the delay. It's been a while since I watched that video, I wanted to re-watch it before I responded haha.
Sailing 100% something I’d love to try.
It's really peaceful. I'd love to learn how one day!
Watching this while moving to Vancouver, cannot wait
Nice man! Yeah, nothing beats the ocean!
Great video. Probably a good thing you passed on the narrows those currents are crazy. There is video on YT where a tug gets in trouble pulling a barge and those currents flip the tug, it’s scary and to watch but everyone was ok.
Yeah man, we would have been gone in no time. I'm heading back there Sunday with a boat so we might have a better chance of jumping in. I've seen that video, crazy eh!! I'd be nervous to take a tug through that... Lucky no was drowned for sure.
Your vlogs are wholesome truly a joy to watch great content man
Thanks! I appreciate the comment. 🙂✌️
Just waiting on my wetsuit pants and me and my wife are gettting trained and in the water. I am so excited. These videos get me so jacked. Also, your family is absolutely adorable. Keep kicking ass, your videos are awesome!
Haha thanks so much! And that's awesome, exciting times ahead for sure. Thanks for the support and comment!
@@PNWSamson my husband replied on my account haha. We are both so excited to get in the water!! Thanks for all the inspiring Samson, we live just south of the border, hopefully we can all meet up one day for a dive!
No worries! And for sure! Can't wait to dive around Washington, Oregon and California. Thanks and sounds good!
do you mind if i ask where you singed up for training?
@@HS-ob3fz I live just south of the Canadian border in a town called Bellingham. There’s a local dive shop called Gone Diving and we are doing it through there :). The owners name is Charlynn, super knowledgeable. Highly recommend :)!
Awesome little trip! My dad used to live up in medeira park so spent a lot of time at skukumchuck. Let me know if you ever want to chat earth sciences about the lower mainland. Love me some good geology! Worked as a geologist for about 10 years
Thanks man and that would be amazing! I'll have to reach out for sure.
this was a great video yet again 🙏🏻
Cheers bro!
That black cod dish looks so amazing, dang!
It was! Black cod is amazing.
Another great video. Kayak surfing the huge wave that forms there on an incoming tide was one of the most awesome things I've experienced. And the enormous whirlpools downstream scared the crap out of me. The Skook is a natural marvel and I hope I get to freedive it one day.
That's crazy man. I don't know if I would have the guys to try that. Looks like fun though! And for sure, it's pretty easy to get to. Definitely day-trip-able. Freedive it for sure!
Great video! I've been double checking your feed all week for this one. I recall that pool at 5:13 was full of bull kelp last time (late 90s) I was there. It's disappointing to see the lack of kelp and tons of urchins and interestingly not many California sea cucumbers. Hopefully the kelp rebounds at some point. Nice to see an abalone though!
Yeah man I was pretty excited when I saw that abalone too haha. And I agree, hopefully the sunstar populations increase and the urchin get munched up! I would have uploaded the video sooner but iMovie wasn't exporting my file. Kept failing. Pretty annoying to say the least! Happy you enjoyed the video!
@@PNWSamson I have the same problem with Premiere Pro. I probably need a computer with a better GPU. It will be interesting to see if the urchins starve.
@@emeraldsky8009 Yeah man. Unfortunately the purple urchin can go dormant for years without food. As soon as kelp grows, they wake up and start eating. Not sure about the green urchin.
@@PNWSamson I didn't know. That's interesting.
Well done Chris! That was worth the wait. Sunshine Coast, spent lots of time there in my youth. Amazingly, good footage.
Thanks dude! It's a spectacular area. Amazing place for sure.
That first dive looked incredible, super lucky conditions for this time of year
Yeah man it was next level. Wish it was like that all the time! Apparently Skookumchuck usually has pretty decent visibility due to the current. Going back again Sunday to find out!
What an amazing video and thanks for sharing it with us..
Thanks man! My pleasure. It's such a beautiful area!
Truly epic video! Good to know about navionics tide function being trash. I'll try my next greenling like that! I'm sorry to hear that you have to live in a greenling-divided home. 😢😭
Haha, well if I continue cooking them that way we'll be good! We are aloud 3 per day here and they are pretty sustainable so they have that going for them. Stoked you enjoyed the video! And the tide isn't bad but the current prediction is garbage. Still a great app overall!
Looks amazing
It's one of my favorite dives now. And we didn't even get in the heart of the action!
Hey awesome music, beautiful family, food, and just allround great showcase of coast life!
Btw, we freedive and have a little cabin 15 min from skookumchuck trailhead. Look us up sometime!
Thanks, happy you liked that one! And sounds good, will do. I'd love to make it back to Skookumchuk for a dive/snorkel sometime. What's the best way to reach out?
Hey do you know what type of marine animal that is at 10:08? I went to skookumchuck and saw one, I asked Reddit… but no luck. Thanks great vids!!!
That's called a gumboot Chiton. Weird little things
Thanks for the reply. Got my sub!
What in your opinion is better eating ,, Rockfish or Greenling ? Not a big fan of Rockfish and have never tried Greenling . Nice vid !
Thanks man. Sorry, just saw I missed this response. I much prefer rockfish. I'd actually take rockfish over Lingcod too. Same with Cabezon. Greenling are pretty good, but many people won't harvest them. The meat can lightly be on the mushy side. I like them for soups or like Alex did on the BBQ
@@PNWSamson Oh man I love the Ling to eat . Thanks for the advice on the Greenling , I'd prob try them in a good east coast style chowder . I grew up on the east coast and always chucked Sculpin back and Cabezon is the same family by the looks . You say they're good , I'll take that to the bank . Thanks for your reply .
just found your channel. :) Lovely content! If you ever dive Powell River, check out the mermaid at Saltery bay.
Thanks dude and will do! I've heard that spot is pretty neat. Sorry, missed this comment or I would have responded sooner.
Hi great video what is that program you use to monitor tides ? How can I learn I am a total beginner thank you
I find Navioncis the best but obviously not always accurate. That was the only time it let me down. And it was the current forecast that read incorrectly, not necessarily the tide. If your a beginner, download navioncis. It's an awesome app for a bunch of reasons.
@@PNWSamson wow awesome thank you . Love your vids so much , trying to learn as much as I can before I give it a go. Your movies are so helpful and motivating . Landing on island in a couple weeks for a few months.
in the beginning of the video using the app on your phone, what app is that? Thanks!
Navionics! It's a great app, despite the bad information I'd still recommend it hands down.
Is there a way to email/chat with you? Really enjoy your videos. I’m in Washington (Everett) and looking for people to dive with. Having trouble finding people around here. Either way, thanks for the videos, you’ve inspired me to get my gills wet again🙂
No worries at all! Do you have instagram?
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