Word of Caution if you're planning a dive on Lock 23 this weekend. Tubie Weekend is a decades-old event that is hugely popular in the area. Teams race in a homemade boat using enormous inner tubes, from Mariatown to the Morrisburg Beach. I've attached the links mainly for the photos - they're all protected so …
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Lock 23 Conditions Following Hurricane Beryl
My dive work has gone in different directions for the past few weeks, but I'm still here! What better time to get back into posting than to talk about that Beryl thing! I had to cancel our regular Wednesday evening club dive. Alerted by news of potentially torrential rains as the end of Beryl neared …
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2023 Approach Depths
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 …
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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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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No Current at Lock 23 – Haha
For the past two weeks (at least on Wednesday nights!), there has been no appreciable current through the locks... or at least to our way of thinking! A slow approach, a slow drift through, an easy climb over the walls, a casual seat on the top! What gives!...? This is always the question. Remember: (1) …
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