This photo looks at the locks from upstream, the direction from which we come as divers on our long approach drift (15-18 minutes). Note that, although the depth of any river increases as we move away from shore, the tops of the walls here are all at the same height, quite close to that of …
Don’t Use the Tin Plate Entry Site this Weekend
It's located at the end of Augusta Street, unlabelled and in the centre of a residential neighbourhood. However, yesterday, the family home directly beside the entry suffered considerable damage from a fire. Whether it's cordoned off or not, please be thoughtful and leave them be.
Dive Season 2023 has Arrived!
It seems like every day now I see divers at the public dock getting ready to challenge a chilly Lock 23! We've had some cold days, some really, really hot ones, and the water just keeps moving on its own warming schedule. Current water temperature is 13C/55F. Still too chilly for me! Water level is …
Ted’s Excellent Adventure
This adventure didn’t happen at Lock 23. It was at Ivy Lea Campground where divers regularly take in the underwater scenery on the northern shore drift. The adventure wasn’t about the dive itself; it was about getting into the water at the start. Picture the general scene: The shoreline is rocky with plenty of boulders. …
Replacing a Weight Pouch Underwater
A Scuba Palace Discussion A few weeks ago I posted about the difficulties associated with removing and replacing a weight-integrated BCD underwater. I’ve wanted to follow up with a note about replacing the weight pouches themselves. Online “lost and found” posts are relatively frequent – where divers have tried to track down the owner of …
We Need Rain
A LOT of rain. At this point, it's the only thing that'll raise the water. It can't be just local rainfall; it must include the whole of the Seaway system. I guess we wait. Larry and I toured the Saunders Dam Visitor Centre in Cornwall yesterday, a fascinating display of the construction of the dam …
Diver Missing (but Found) on the Tin Plate Drift
The view here is calm but it wasn't so on Wednesday evening. As we milled about after our dives, our last group was in the water and expected to exit right about here. However, some of its members surfaced early, calling to us from upstream for assistance with a missing diver. In the end, everyone …
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2022 August 17: Such Low Water!! Such poor viz!
We've had great conditions and become a bit spoiled at Lock 23 all summer so were dumbfounded to find the water level as low as it was last night. Computers resting right on the road hovered at a reading just below 9 feet! I'd never even noticed - busy in the yard and then chatting …
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North and East Aren’t Quite What We Thought
Throughout this site, I've always said that Canada is north and the river flows east. I've also said that even as we use our compass to head north, the current carries us downstream as we swim, which means that we don't arrive at the same point in the river that we started from. Of late, …
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Removing an Integrated-Weight BCD Underwater
Removing is the easy part... we have to get it back on afterwards.... A Scuba Palace Discussion We had a discussion around the BBQ recently about the problems associated with fully or partially removing an integrated-weight BCD underwater - the type of BCD most commonly used by divers today. In the "old" days, not so …
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