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Diving => Diving => Topic started by: on February 20, 2006, 11:16:00 AM

Title: British Columbia - New Diving Attraction
Post by: on February 20, 2006, 11:16:00 AM
Sounds good, any where near you guys ?
 
 http://www.divernet.com/news/stories/150206boeing.shtml (http://www.divernet.com/news/stories/150206boeing.shtml)
Title: Re: British Columbia - New Diving Attraction
Post by: bellagio on February 20, 2006, 11:56:00 AM
It does sound good Warren I must admit.
 
 Pity though I could have thought of a better aircraft to sink than that one, couldn't you???
 
 A certain Boeing 767 - 200 series springs to mind!!!!
Title: Re: British Columbia - New Diving Attraction
Post by: JohnnyCastaway on February 20, 2006, 08:45:00 PM
well that would be very cool to dive.  Unfortunately, BC is on the other side of Canada for us.  
 
 I've had dives on a small Cessna (sunk for the filming of one of the Jaws movies in the Bahama's) and a drug smuggling plane (at least half of it was still intact) in Jamaica.  A 737 would be a hell of a dive.     :D
Title: Re: British Columbia - New Diving Attraction
Post by: Gambitt on February 20, 2006, 10:37:00 PM
Now that's a dive I would love to do...
 
 I'm wondering how "intact" the cockpit is...  Now that would be cool to have your buddy take a photo from outside while you are in the pilot's seat, with all your dive gear on!
 
 "What do you mean the altimeter is reading in the Negative?!?!"
 
 
 Johnny, I do have an Aunt in BC who is dying for me to visit....
Title: Re: British Columbia - New Diving Attraction
Post by: on February 21, 2006, 06:18:00 AM
I have only ever dived one plane wreck, can't remember what model this was, but it was quite modern.
 
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Title: Re: British Columbia - New Diving Attraction
Post by: dfromyyc on March 29, 2006, 07:12:00 PM
it's just a 14 hour hop from here!!!!
 there are a number of frigates and other boats that have been sunk on the b.c. coast as part of the artificial reef
 my wife and i may try to dive the coast sometime soon [maybe this summer] but it is a lot of gear to take when we are on vacation visiting family. [drysuits and weight included] in a minivan with camping gear adds up to a full load!!!!