| This is the local hangout in Alexandria Bay for wreck
divers. Someone told me that there are about 500 wrecks in the
area! They do seem to have a sizable wreck diving community, and
I even saw 10- or 12- foot bass boats loaded with Aquazepps, doubles
and stage bottles! |
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This is our boat, the C-Hunt, owned and run by septuagenarian
Capt. Moe Hunt. Moe was the very first person to dive the Jodrey,
the day after it when down in 1974. Don't worry about the room
on the boat, the wreck is
only a five minute drive away! |
| Going out to the wreck site. The Thousand Islands
is a big tourist area, and there are also many stately mansions on the
islands. It is also the primary shipping corridor from the Great
Lakes to the Atlantic, and huge, 600- and 700- foot long ships go by
all day long. |
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Christine Dennison with the "Mad
Dog" Alice. Alice couldn't wait to get to the dive site
so she could go swimming. |
| Anchoring next to the U.S. Coast Guard station
(background), in just 10 feet of water. The station is on one of the
many islands, and the Jodrey is entirely on the U.S. side of the U.S.
- Canadian border. Canadian dive boats must go through customs
on their way out and back. |
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The edge of the drop-off. This ledge drops off
from about 40 feet into a vertical granite wall all the way down to
the wreck. When you drop off, it's just like in the movie Abyss,
falling down a wall into the dark abyss. Really cool! For
those open ocean wreck divers, it is a different experience, because
now you have a sense of perspective on just how far you are falling. |
| Falling along the vertical wall. It is covered
with zebra mussels. |
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The wreck is reached in about 140 feet. You can
just barely see the crow's nest on the left. |
| A better view of the crow's nest. It was dark down
on the wreck. |
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This is one of the Bills, I'm not sure
which one (we had two, Bill Davidson and Bill Marzano). |
| I land on top of the Jodrey's bridge, on the bow.
As a "laker", the Jodrey had two large superstructures, one
on the front of the bow (with the bridge), and one on the extreme
stern (with the mess and crew's quarters), separated by almost 500
feet of holds. They are really two separate dives, each with a
very different character. The bow is slanted to the starboard at
about a 45 degree angle. |
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Some debris laying on the bow. |
