Diving the 737

The day started in the mid afternoon with my friend and I heading one hour north from Victoria to Chemainus, a town "renowned for it's murals". From there we attempted to contact a local man who did charters out to the 737 that was sunk around a year ago in the area. With my friend and I having no luck we had to set out on our own to find the wreck and with help from the local populace we located the bouy marking the dive site and set out. We planned what we would do of course, making a large surface swim of around 1KM against the tide and then descending straight down the line to the wreck, staying until 1000 PSI then swimming at depth to shore then ascending at 800. Since I only had my BOW we had to limit the depth of the dive, but with only a total of about 26 minutes of underwater time there was barely enough time to see it all.

The plane had already started to attract lots of life, with anemones and starfish and light coral growth scattering over it's surface. Really my words don't do it service, but within a few years the dive should be even more spectacular. This was a particularly exciting dive for my friend as his dad had flown this plane previously and he is also a flyboy. Once we surfaced with around 500 we did an easy surface swim with the tide back onto shore. From there we got many questions from the populace and answered them with a smile. This area was a fantastic dive and well worth the trip.

I suggest anyone else that gets the chance take this dive as well.

This is a local convert we made, the Grandmother of this child had pointed us out as Undersea Hunters. We gladly showed the young lad all of our equipment and explained what we do underwater, he was fascinated and certainly seemed excited at the prospect of doing it in the future.

Also pay no attention to my massive farmers tan.