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There are many small hotels, Inns, B&B, camping etc. Many divers stay at the Bridge Island motel in Mallory Town PH: 613-923-5264, about 10 minutes outside of town near where we gas up. If you like the High springs Country Inn you will like this place. At nite usually you mix your gas eat dinner or night dive. There are lots of bars and if you want to go crazy head over to Alexandria Bay NY. This is where all the big money of NY summers in the Thousand Islands. Other than ABay I'd plan on bringing your own date to this party. FYI the best local dive shop is Dive Tech they carry Halcyon, ScubaPro, Apeks, DUI, and the are usually open from 7Am to 12 Midnite for late filling 613-498-6877. You can also order your gas and have it delivered to Dive Tech and only pay for your gas by the T-bottle. Vitalaire 613-741-0202, ask for Leno. Helium is $25.00 USD and O2 is $12.00 per T. This sounds cheap but the USD goes along way is now about $1.00 US buys $1.55 CDN. Many NY divers buy their gas in Canada. Its also all medical grade. Industrial is even cheaper but why bother. BB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendell Grogan" <wgrogan@dc*.ne*> To: "Bryon Bertrim" <bryon@be*.co*> Cc: <NyWrecker@ao*.co*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com>; <quest@gu*.co*> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: Re: St Lawrence vs Kingston > Bryon, > Sounds like a good place to go. Where can one stay in Rockport and what > is there to do after diving? > Wendell > > Bryon Bertrim wrote: > > > > I was being funny both are great places, i live 1 hr away and part own a 40Ft dive Tech diving boat called the Deep Explorer which is moored in Rockport Ontario across river from Alexandra Bay NY (Near Brockville). We dive all the wrecks including many that we have newly found. I also dive Kingston alot. We have a group of DIR divers called Xdive our main mission is to explore deep and return safe. > > > > The difference between Kingston and the upper St Lawrence is dramatic Kingston can have 4 Thermos and be dark and cold 36F at the bottom (a typical Great lakes dive). And just 30 Miles/60K down the river from Kingston, no thermos bright and 75F at the bottom. Kingston does have more wrecks. But the river is like the Caribbean except no salt water or sharks. In the fall when the water temp drops a bit we can get over 100 ft of VIS and not need a light on a wreck at 180 FFW. All this said the cold water of the Great lakes preserves wood and artifacts extremely well many wrecks are as intact as a 150 yr old wreck can be (We do not remove anything but gold). On deep dives in the Great Lakes its not time that is the enemy but the cold. This is where you pray for warm water on your upper decos and hope you don't rip a dry glove. So its great to alternate between the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence. The other great thing about the river is you can be on a great wreck in 20 Minutes barely > > enough time to get your rig together, so you can do 2 big dives and still make it back to the dock for 3PM. > > BB > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: NyWrecker@ao*.co* > > To: bryon@be*.co* > > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 9:29 AM > > Subject: Re: Toronto diving ? > > > > In a message dated 8/12/2001 6:45:35 AM Central Daylight Time, > > bryon@be*.co* writes: > > > > Never mind Kingston, the best diving is 45 Min farther down the road in the > > St Lawrence river. The water was 75F today at 180 FFW, no thermoclines, > > great VIS, great wrecks. How do you beat that. > > > > Sounds like just where we go.Brockton-Prescot,area.What wreck was it????Where > > do you go and who do you use for a boat? > > Ed > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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