Bonus Charter...

It's not every day that a charter captain calls you at ten to eight in the morning and offers you a trip, so when they do, it's generally a good idea to gear up and get going. That's what happened today and, when I got to the boat, who should I find smiling and enjoying life but Rob Bradley. Another familiar face was Gary Gillan, whose company I last enjoyed on a Club charter out of Duck's Diving in 2006. The two-tank outing took in the Frontenac and the Geo T. Davie. Great dive sites and seen in pretty good conditions. Viz on the Frontenac was better than on the Davie; about 50 feet compared to 30 or so. Water temperatures were very similar- somewhere around the 48°F mark (9°C).

Work on the Frontenac...

Out today to work on mooring options at the Frontenac. The sky was blue and the waters calm - great conditions for getting out to this wreck, which is one of the more distant ones. There has been an ambition for some time to create a mooring off the wreck itself. Currently, the line goes down to the Starboard stern rail of the tug. Some heavy iron wheels, chained together for effect, were dropped some time ago, but they lie just too far from the wreck to serve well as a descent line anchor. We worked today to dig these wheels out to some extent, preparing them for a lift to a position closer to the wreck itself. Bottom times at 110' aren't very long and although the total dive time was 30 minutes on each of two dives, we probably achieved only the minimum desired effect. Another trip - or maybe more - will be required to place a bag on the stack of wheels in an effort to dislodge them and shift them across the bottom. It would have been a travesty to miss a tour of the wreck itself, so that was taken in on the second dive. Visibility was pretty good; certainly in excess of 60 feet. The temperature, however, just to warn those who are exulting in 3mm dives in the shallows, was 42°F (6°).