As part of the research for the Pilot Marine Protected Area at Race Rocks, in the spring of 1999, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans commissioned a study by the Canadian Hydrographic Service of the sea floor around Race Rocks using advanced acoustical bathymetry techniques .
Bathymetry courtesy of
Department of Fisheries and Oceans,
Canadian Hydrographic Service.
This image of an underwater 3D projection of the Race Rocks topography was made from topographic surveys existing as of June, 1997 by Mike Rebitt of Terra Surveys in Sidney, B.C. In this image, Bentinck Island, at the lowest tip of Vancouver Island is on the left. The Race Rocks Archipelago is centered in the picture.
