Empress of Ireland
This is me getting ready to dive the
Empress of Ireland.
We did two dives on her in 2003. The Empress is recommended as a trimix dive to explore the deeper portions. She is in a very high current area of the St Lawrence River and careful attention to tides must be paid to avoid diving in extremely fast currents. The Empress is in very cold water 4C.
An article was published in diver magazine about our dive weekend.
The Roy A. Jodrey
The Roy A. Jodrey is by far my favorite wreck to dive. She is located near Alexandria Bay NY. The Jodrey is a very advanced dive and she is a definite trimix dive.
The top of this wreck starts at a depth of 150ft. The current is very strong in this area of the river and divers should be experienced in diving in strong current. The Jodrey is a 700ft iron ore freighter that sank in 1974. The jodrey is a similar size to the freighter shown below. Notice the coast guard boat next to her... That small boat is about a 22 footer!
Here is a link to my friend Steve's video of us diving on this awsome ship wreck :
Video of us diving the Jodrey
Morrison's Quarry
We spend a lot of time diving at Morrison's Quarry. It's a quarry that is about 125ft deep and have a plane, shark, sub, boat and a few cars in it.
We dive there most Wednesday evening through the summer since it is a great place to do practise dives with valve drills, air sharing and emergency procedures.
Ice Diving
Morrison's quarry is also a great place to do some ice diving. The quarry water temperature stays around 4C year round so it's a little more forgiving environement that diving in the river where the water is typically 0C in the winter.
Ice diving requires some additional procedures as well to ensure you make it back to the hole in the ice. We use cave diving techniques along with redundancy to ensure we have enough gas and time to back it back to the hole. Normally we dive with a stage bottle which contains enough gas for the dive. We carry double tanks on our back which we reserve for emergency gas. In this way we ensure that even in the worst case scenario we have plenty of gas to get back to the hole in the ice.
Scuba Compressor
In 2007 I picked up my own compressor so I would not have to lug all my tanks down to the shop each time I wanted to go diving.
Because I was already mixing various gases for my diving the compressor would also allow me to do something called continuous blending which would allow better utilization of my gasses while mixing them.
My Compressor Page
Created on 01/13/2005 11:37 AM by bloedorn
Updated on 11/06/2007 01:54 PM by bloedorn
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