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>Over on the safety-from-other-boats angle, there are a few wreck dives
>here in Ontario (most notably the ones under the main shipping channel in
>the Sarnia/Port Huron area) that can be treated almost as cave dives.
>Enter from shore, follow the bottom to the wreck, and return to shore
>before surfacing. Direct ascent is not a viable option due to the
>possibility of an "Evinrude Haircut" or even a meeting with a 700' lake
>freighter. Sailboats are also bad, because you can't hear them coming.
>
>--
>Anthony DeBoer
Anthony,not even close.
There are no problems with light failures,a lost line simply means you dont
find the wreck,and in a gas emergency,you CAN surface & take your chances
with the boat traffic.Further,you can hear those big freighters while theyre
still a half mile away,and if youre still in the channel after KNOWING that
one is on the way,well..
I dove the Pt.Huron/Bluewater bridge area at least twice a month for ten
years,and frankly the umpteen-hundred fisherman pose a greater hazard than
the river traffic does (IMO).I'd rather take my chances with the 700'
freighter than the 300 lb.+ Michigan redneck who's SURE you cut his line to
get his $.79 K-mart lure.
John L. Dunk o
Tallahassee,Fl. o
screwloose@ne*.co* ______o_________
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