Favorite dives north of New York

[Jonathan Bird]

Here's a good topic for discussion. What are your favorite dives north of New York?

I'll go first. Of course, Eastport, Maine is my favorite. But I also really like halfway rock in MA and diving with the seals in Bar Harbor, ME.

Jonathan

[David White]

Well Jonathan, we are north of New York and may very well have the world's best fresh water wreck diving right here in Ontario, Canada. Tobermory regales itself as the Scuba Diving Capital of Canada and has numerous wrecks that are exceptionally well preserved due to the cold fresh water. Brockville and Kingston, along the St. Lawrence river, also offer exceptional fresh water wreck diving.

It is difficult to pick a favourite though since they all offer something unique. There are schooners, paddle wheel steamers, dredges, and barges that came to rest on the bottom more than a century ago, as well as freighters and ferries that were purposefully sunk as artificial reefs more recently. It would take a very dedicated diver quite some time to visit all of the wrecks that are accessible to sport divers up here in the Great White North.

[Jonathan Bird]

I have heard fanstastic things about Tobermory! Hey, do you know a guy named Mike Marcotte? He was a divemaster in Dominica and he then moved up and was divemastering in Tobermory until recently when he opened an art gallery.

Jonathan

[David White]

I am not familiar with Mike Marcotte but it is interesting that he would go from divemastering in Dominica to divemastering in Tobermory. It is much more common for our divemasters to head anywhere south to ply their trade, rather than go the other way around. I wonder what attracted him to Tobermory; the fresh water, the great wreck diving, whitefish, our government health care, four seasons...