Oak Leaf is a northeast-facing shore dive in the Nanaimo Area. Typically, visibility here is about 45 ft (range 25–45 ft), based on 10 pnwdiving reports from 2022 through 2026. For the site briefing, see dive planning for Oak Leaf.
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Recent Visibility Reports
Dive report for 6/19/26
- Visibility
- 40+ feet, 20 feet in the shallows
Epic visibility at oak leaf
Scuba Jess
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Dive report for 5/30/26
By Nate Cermak
- Visibility
- A hazy 20+ feet, 10 feet in the shallows
Three beautiful dives at Oak Leaf. Several PS kings, two GPOs, a few baby mosshead warbonnets, two grunt sculpins, three juvenile yelloweyes! Swimming scallops aplenty, and hundreds of big dendronotids, many actively hunting tube anemones.
Scuba Jess, pnwdiving.com and 1 others
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