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Diving student Connor Wiebe shows off the pumpkin he carved underwater Thursday during the last day of DIVESAFE International’s commercial scuba course. See more pictures on page 24. Photo by Maxwel hohn
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We all remember the record dry summer we had with no snow melt, Vancouver Island rivers so low they were closed to angling in order to protect fish stocks, Island communities so dry they instigated high level water restrictions, and water in the Upper Campbell Reservoir so low it dipped to below the lip of the Strathcona Dam intake. All of it symptomatic of a bona fide drought. Right? Well, maybe not. In the end, BC Hydro’s water supply year – running from October to September – for
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