North Vancouver · Howe Sound · British Columbia
We specialize in
everything ocean.
Liquid Blue is a professional dive contractor for the jobs below the waterline: hull and dock checks, lost item recovery, underwater film, marine research and technical dives to 100 metres.
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3 m10 ft
As the name might suggest, we operate best in that element that fills our oceans, lakes and rivers. Water.
Liquid Blue offers professional dive services on a full range of underwater projects. If you have a special underwater project or marine related task in mind, this is the team to call.
Certified and qualified, with thousands of successful dives under our weight belts, ready to assist you in any of your underwater endeavours.
6 m20 ft
Below the hull, under the dock.
Liquid Blue can assess the hull of your boat and your floating dock for damage or cleaning. We replace or free a propeller, clean the submerged hull of mussels and clear other marine buildup as requested.
- Hull and dock assessmentDamage, wear and fouling, checked and reported.
- PropellersReplaced, or freed from line and debris.
- Hull cleaningMussels and marine growth cleared.
- Lost item recoveryKeys, phones, cameras and other valuables brought back up.
Dropped something overboard?
Pick it, let it go, and watch where it ends up.
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"We cannot guarantee your phone or camera functionality, but at least we can get you your property back!"
18 m59 ft
Twenty-one cameras on a sinking destroyer.
When the former Canadian destroyer HMCS Annapolis was scuttled as an artificial reef in Halkett Bay Marine Park, Gambier Island, Liquid Blue placed and retrieved 21 GoPro cameras throughout the ship to capture the sinking. We did the same for the frigate Hermenegildo Capelo off Portimão, Portugal, in 2013, a project run by CARC (Canadian Artificial Reef Consultants).
GoPro HD video to 100 m / 330 ft. Stills and video from fisheye to super macro to 65 m / 200 ft, in any environment.
Hover or tap a film to light it up. More on the Liquid Blue YouTube channel.
30 m98 ft
The glass sponge reefs of Howe Sound.
Ongoing work around Vancouver: scientific project maintenance, mooring buoy maintenance, and a steady programme of photogrammetry and data acquisition dives on the glass sponge gardens and bioherms of Howe Sound.
The scan here is one of those dives: a rare glass sponge on a monitored bioherm, rebuilt in 3D from Chris's own footage.
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Who we dive for
Liquid Blue works consistently with these organizations on long and short term research projects.
- MLSS
- Marine Life Sanctuaries Society of BC, a Canadian charity since 1985. Liquid Blue was on its historic dive on the Lions Bay Seamount and its first exploration of the Anvil Island bioherm.
- UASBC
- Underwater Archaeological Society of BC, locating, surveying and protecting the province's maritime heritage.
- UCBC
- Underwater Council of British Columbia, the unified voice of recreational divers in BC.
- NOAA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- OceanMind
- Documentary films and immersive learning, Kiel, Germany.
- Silent Ō Solutions
- Commercial diving, marine and film services, Maui, Hawaii.
- Divers for Cleaner Lakes and Oceans
- Volunteer divers running regular clean up dives.
60 m197 ft
Thousands of dives since 1992.
"My love for the ocean started back in 1992 with my first dives and initial certifications through VDTL. Subsequently followed a three year summer seasonal job at the Hillside Beach Club's Blue Dolphin Dive Center in Fethiye, Turkey."
"Thousands of dives and various certifications later, Liquid Blue represents my dedication towards marine preservation and everything ocean related. I am currently devoting my time towards projects in and around the Howe Sound area of beautiful British Columbia, with special research projects in the Hawaiian Islands."
Chris Straub, owner and diver
100 m328 ft
No need to dive dark.
"The deeper we go, the less color we see. Over one half of the reds are filtered out in the first three feet, while half of the yellow light is gone at the ten foot mark. By thirty feet, everything has taken on a blue grey look."
That is why Liquid Blue uses Archon dive lights on every job, and why we are the authorized distributor for the entire Archon line in Canada. Lights from 75 to 13,000 lumens, spot or video, built for the explorer as well as the photographer.
- Affordability, while keeping quality and reliability
- Performance, all the way to 200 m
- Batteries the diver can change
Go deep, go dark, go Archon.
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Have a job below the waterline?
Tell us what it is, where it is and roughly how deep. The dive desk takes the details and hands them to Chris with everything filled in, so the first reply can be a quote.