| Greg Jackson ascends at the end of his dive. One
of the nice things about the Jodrey is that you never get blown out -
even though the winds were ripping for most of the three days we were
here, since the dive site is in the St. Lawrence River, waves never
exceed a foot or so. |
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This is Andrew Driver with the new Megalodon
rebreather. He is using OMS 45 cu ft cylinders for his oxygen
and diluant bottles. |
| Here Andrew shows off the Megalodon's DSV-mounted
heads-up display (HUD). |
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Greg Jackson and Jay Tempe surface after a dive to the
Jodrey's bow. Behind them is the island on which the US Coast
Guard station resides. As maritime disasters go, the Jodrey
accident went in reverse; instead of the Coast Guard going to the
sinking ship, the sinking ship came to the Coast Guard! There
were no fatalities, by the way. |
| This gear is owned by two guys who dive the Jodrey
almost every summer weekend, Chris and Dan, and who scolded me for saying
that their Farallon scooters were Aquazepps on my site last
year! "Farallon" is an ancient Native American word
for "Land of the Dead". People would try to swim or
canoe from
the California coast to the islands of the that name, and get eaten by
the great white sharks that inhabit the area. |
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Loading up the boat for the 5-minute boat ride to the
next morning's dive. The C-Hunt is owned by the area's diving
pioneer, Capt. Moe Hunt, who was also the first person to dive the
Jodrey after it sank. |
| This morning we are diving the Jodrey's stern, which
lies out in the middle of the shipping channel. This end of a
thick, polypropylene line chained around this big bolder is the
start of a 6 to 8 minute swim through the strong currents under all
the shipping traffic to the stern superstructure. You definitely
don't want to do a free ascent into the middle of all those floating
Cusinarts! |
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Jay Tempe after our long swim to the stern
superstructure. |
| Jay next to a large spotlight on the deck. The
entire stern superstructure is lying to extreme starboard. |
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This is the stern smokestack, painted
red. |
| A large winch head. |
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Another view of the stern stack. |
