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Wreck Trek 2018: Vancouver Diving Locker

Join us on a two day wreck diving adventure to Vancouver Island. We will take the ferry to Sidney, meet Erin the boat captain and are off to a great start diving the G.B. Church, HMCS MacKenzie, Boeing 737, Rivtow Lion, HMCS Saskatchewan, and HMCS Cape Breton over a couple of days! We will boat all the way through the Gulf Islands, stay overnight in Nanaimo. Sunday we will do the reverse, just dive the wrecks around Nanaimo.

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Diving the “Tiller Shipwreck”

This is a two masked wooden schooner built (estimate) in the 1800’s. Length of this shipwreck is 94 feet and is located in 110 feet of water. Located in Lake Ontario, the Tiller’s position is approximately 6 km north of Port Dalhousie. The wreck sits upright.

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Shooting Up the Canadiana

It is the early summer of 1943 and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is well into its fourth year of existence. Potential air crews from across the Commonwealth are gathered and training is in high gear producing well-trained crews capable of contributing to the war effort. Across Canada the skies are filled with the droning sounds of training aircraft of many types.

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The Princess Sophia Shipwreck

At 10 PM, October 23, 1918, the Canadian Pacific passenger ship, the SS Princess Sophia left port at Scagway, Alaska with 298 passengers, men, women and children, largely from Dawson City, Yukon, and a crew of 65.

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The Ethyl B Sumner: On Wreck and Mystery

In the dark of midnight, November 12, 1912, Ethyl B Sumner struck a ledge near Waterside, New Brunswick, and broke apart. According to a commentary written in The Parrsboro Record in April 1974, “Such was the untimely end of the Ethyl B Sumner by this cruel act of Providence, but danger and sometimes death were always the sailor’s companions in the by-gone days of sail.”

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War-time wrecks off Bell Island shore a fascinating dive

“Ladies and gentlemen we are going to need to circle for a few minutes until we can get clearance to land.” For many, this announcement would be a frustration, a sign you would be late. For me it was a chance to get a bird’s-eye view of the waters I would be submerging in the next morning. Looking down, I saw Bell Island and Little Bell Island. In the waters that surround these islands lie four wrecks steeped in history.

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Thrill of the unknown drives shipwreck hunter

It’s something like the classic “chicken and egg story.” Which came first? In Terry Dwyer’s case the question is “shipwrecks or scuba diving?” There never was any doubt in his mind. His sole purpose to dive was to facilitate his passion for searching shipwrecks.