Once upon a time in Canada
DIVER Canada|Spring 2023
If you have a passion for diving it can be fun to share it with the right partner. And if you’re single, you might start looking for that partner on a dating app. For Kirk Applejohn it seemed like a good plan.
ROGER MCDONELL
Once upon a time in Canada

Living in Northern British Columbia, far away from a large body of water, it can be challenging to find a scuba diving single with whom to share your passion. As fate would have it, Kirsten Wonders was also looking for a partner, and was using the very same dating app.

The app brought Kirk and Kirsten together for a first date over a cup of coffee, and although a mutual interest was present, circumstances change, and before any romance could blossom, Kirsten and Kirk each moved away from their community.

But fate still had a hand to play.

“We both moved independently of each other, but to the same city of Victoria!” says Kirk. “I found out when I happened to see Kirsten on a social media post from the University Dive Club, so I asked her out again.”

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