Ice Diving the Wreck of the Islander

[4CC1D3NTAL]

What song is playing? Ha

[linkas9]

was it cold or r those dry suits

[se2schul]

@linkas9

They are drysuits, but it's still pretty cold!

[Rikasso66]

Are they expensive. I use to make dive light, and reel's but been away from diving so long I'm out of touch sorta with all this stuff

[Rikasso66]

Are they made in Canada?

[se2schul]

They're made in the US, but there Canadian retailers who sell that brand.

[Rikasso66]

I must say I'm sorry I did not read the title properly, once again my bad.

Thanks.

Do you guys have someone making your specailty gear ie:dive lights reels ect?

[se2schul]

You must have been surprised... Expecting to see a big steel ferry and finding a little wooden wreck instead.

The lights and reels are from Halcyon.

[Rikasso66]

I'm thinking that was not the wolf Ils ferry???

[se2schul]

Not the Wolf Island Ferry. That's just East of Kingson.

This wreck is the Islander. It's right in front of the town of Alexandria Bay in 40 ft of water.

[cheltcanary]

Great vid!! as a diver myself tho who HASNT done cave or ice diving, why the stage cylinders? cant be for decompression as the dive seems quite shallow - also becuase of the cold doubt you'd want to be under more than an hour! is it for backup/redundancy only?

many thanks

[se2schul]

Hi cheltcanary,

Good observations. The stage isn't needed for depth or distance or time. We only took them because the water was so cold that freeflows were a distinct possibility. The extra regulator on the stage bottle is just added redundancy which we wouldn't have used if the water had been warmer. Thanks for the comments!

[cheltcanary]

many thanks! i guessed they must be for back up only (i dive UK cold waters - to 4degrees - but we make sure we have cold water kits fitted to our regs to reduce chance of free flow - we still carry a 3lt pony cylinder for redundancy tho if diving 25m -40m

thanks anyway - great vid, hope to try ice diving one day!

[EnergyDog23]

Is it old wreck?

[kevinmosleyI]

Cool vid! :)

[foziediver]

Great shots would love to have done that dive!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ColinKraut]

I've been up in that area, having grown up in the Midwest and traveled a lot as a kid.

[ColinKraut]

Amazing, where is the wreck located?

[se2schul]

The wreck is in the St Lawrence River near Alexandria Bay.

[srvfan454]

holy jeez, that just looks scary! scary but AWESOME!

[twoheadedelvis]

Awesome video. Enjoyed the hell out of it.