Originally posted by Wossa:
Hi
It's nice to see that there's been a corner so that the divers can get together.
It's interesting to hear about the diving in Canada and the surrounding areas. I get the feeling that the diving in Canada and the U.K are very similar. Sometimes difficult, cold water and very poor vis is the norm for the U.K, not the way I like it but have to lump it !
Do you have many wrecks in Ontario? I enjoy the clear waters of Cuba and so on but feel that the lack of wrecks from my recent visit put me off a bit. Nice to see the colourful corals and fish, but every dive was very similar, and it would of been nice to dive a wreck as a bit of variation. Are there areas of Cuba that has good wreck diving ?
We have some fantastic wrecks in the U.K, everything from WW1 Subs and U Boats to the latest walmart shopping trolley, something for everyone.
Wossa
Hi Wossa, apparently in vardero, there is a sunken Russian destroyer off the "light house", I'm not exactly sure where that is, but beaches, offered it, so I'm assuming that most of the places along the strip would. If I recall, it goes from 80 feet to about 120 feet at the deepest. That would be quite cool to dive.
In Ontario, there's a fair bit of history as well, rumour has it that in Humber Bay, just on the western edge of Toronto there are a number of old ships from the war of 1812. I knew a couple of police divers in the Toronto Marine unit that were telling me about it, but they don't advertise it due to the danger in diving the wrecks, apparently they lose a few divers a year there. :D )
Unfortunately, that about exhausts my knowledge of Ontario diving, but I know there's a lot more. (personal note: more research required...)
The marine life here does not compare to the Caribbean diving, nor are there any reefs (it's all fresh water), so more than 75% of my dives have been there.
I like the wreck diving myself, probably becuase of one dive that I did in the DR. An old trawler that went down in a storm in 65 feet of water, landed *perfectly* on the bottom. as a resort dive (not certified yet, but my buddy was an instructor who kept me in the pool an extra hour to appease the dive master) he brought me down to the bottom with my back to the wreck, then turned me around. It just blew me away. Down at 65', standing on the bottom looking at a ship just sitting there. Since then, I've done wrecks in Bahamas (the benchmark of diving for me) and in Jamaica.
sorry to be so long winded, but ... you know.. it's diving. :D
