Expeditions

Ocean Quest's packages include scheduled and customized diving expeditions to the West coast of Newfoundland and remote coastal areas of Labrador. These expeditions offer divers the opportunity to experience Newfoundland & Labrador's unique landscape and culture whilst seeing some of the Province's historic sites from an underwater perspective, including the chance to discover new shipwrecks and collect important archaeological information. 

The Atlantic Canada Challenge
The Atlantic Canada Challenge is our once-a-year expedition for the diver that wants diving, diving, and more diving! The Atlantic Canada Challenge is designed to take in everything that is great about diving in Newfoundland: shipwrecks, whales, and icebergs, while being surrounded by some of the most beautiful panoramic landscapes in the world.

Starting in Port Aux Basques, the Challenge will take you to "The Island of the Dead", an abandoned community, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the site of Cabot's 1497 landfall, North America's oldest city, and the quaintly named Conception Bay.

Uncharted: In Search of History 
Uncharted: The Search for History is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for wreck divers: to discover shipwrecks! You'll join a team of experienced divers like yourself and will play a role in all parts of the adventure: research and reconnaissance, identifying dive spots, strategizing dive plans, and exploring the depths for these forgotten shipwrecks. With over 10,000 shipwrecks in Newfoundland's maritime history and only 5% discovered, there are plenty to be found!

In 2009, we'll be targeting the Southern Shore of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula. This notorious stretch of coast, hosting unforgiving broken rocks and thick fog banks, is where hundreds of ships met their untimely end. There is history to found and to be made by locating these wrecks. You'll be the first person to lay your eyes on these artifacts for perhaps more than a hundred years.

With so many shipwrecks in the region, we'll take time to visit some of the known, but rarely seen wrecks, as well as the WWII Bell Island wrecks, remarkable ships in their own right.

Expedition Labrador
Expedition Labrador is our culturally focused trip, where you not only experience some of the best diving of your life, you'll find your new home away from home!

Your trip starts at the Ocean Quest Adventure Resort, and then it's off to Gros Morne National Park for diving walls and touring the unbelievable sites. From there's it's off to Labrador, the Big Land, where Battle Harbour and Red Bay offer fantastic wrecks and marine life. On your return to Conception Bay South, you'll stop at Terra Nova National Park. The trip finishes up with a bang, as you'll visit a Newfoundland oddity, the Whale Graveyard, and the world famous WWII Bell Island Wrecks.

From one end of the province to the other, you'll experience our history, culture, the personalities and our natural wonders, and you'll realize that you're not visiting, you've come home for a spell.