deep wrecks

[snuggle]

whats the deepest wreck that you have dived..

 

[Doc Intrepid]

Why would you ask this question?

The answers, cumulatively and individually, are meaningless.

Prudent divers dive to depths they are trained to operate at. This varies on an individual and subjective basis.

Questions like "how deep have you gone" are invariably missing context, and only serve to inspire newer divers to contemplate diving beyond their abilities.

 

[deep_ocean]

Even though, to some extent, I agree with Doc Intrepid - this may inspire an unhealthy sense of competition, I still think that there is nothing wrong in asking the question. Wise answers may actually shed some light on the concept of deep diving, its challenges, dangers... I think that with a strong emphasis on "this is NOT a competition", new divers can actually learn some interesting stuff from the more experienced crowd.



Personally, having under 20 dives behind my belt, I've never gone deeper than 110ft. It was on the Keystorm in Brockville and we'd only "passed by" that depth (not even a minute) as we were going around the props. We made sure there was an adequate safety stop and the whole dive was great.

safe diving

deep_ocean

 

[sparky30]

My deepest wreck was the Cape Breton just off Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. A huge vitory ship that was sunk just for divers.. I got down to 128ft, and there was still a lot of wreck left below me.. Someone told me you can reach 140ft... I was diving Nitrox and decided to stay a little shallower and enjoy the extra bottom time exploring the upper superstructure.
I've done a wall dive off the continental shelf in the Bahamas.. THe floor was somewhere around 5000ft I was told.. I got down to 137ft... I could still see the dive boat when I looked up THe fish life and coral was amazing... Basically I decended as quickly as I could down to 137ft, and then came back up to around 80ft and hung around there for a while..

 

[vlada]

Snuggle, there are a lot of people in Ontario section that dive deeper than 200 ft on a regular basis - but, they have the required training, had build the experience leading up to these kind of dives, and most importantly, they use the appropriate gas to do these dives, so the single answer to your quesiton in ft would not add any real value to this discussion

Furthermore, since we are diving in the some of the toughest conditions found anywhere in the world, one can have a 70 ft dive that was more complex, stressful and tougher to execute that a dive to 130 ft in the clear water of the Caribbean - i had couple of those 70 ft dives that pushed me to the limits of my abilities/confidence at the time

If you hoping to get some good info from you questinon - please define it better

DSAO

Vlada

 

[snuggle]

you know something i dont see what the problem is here..i was just curious as to who had dived what thats all ..i have read a lot about whats involved in diviing deeper then the recreational diving allows and i know its something that has to be worked up to so to those who who chose to jump on me for posing the question i hope that you have a good day and how you came to those replies i havent a clue..it was a simple question.. not something to entice a novice diver to do something stupid and as far as starting a competition among divers dont worry its already out there.. sparky it sounds to me like you have had a lot of fun doing those dives..i hope you have many many more..love to dive with you one day..

 

[Doppler]

snuggle once bubbled...
whats the deepest wreck that you have dived..

Quite deep... but it took a lot of planning and support... however, you should perhaps consider that "deep" is a relative term and you might consider rephrasing to ask: What's the most complex wreck dive you have done. For me, that would be the Empress of Ireland... not deep at all, but very challenging and much more of a "Deep" wreck than the Doria, Gunilda, Superior City, which are all considered for some reason to be tougher dives... not the case I feel.

 

[JohnF]

Doc Intrepid once bubbled...

Prudent divers dive to depths they are trained to operate at. This varies on an individual and subjective basis.

Would it be fair to suggest that some prudent divers are well aware of their limitations and so get some vicarious kicks by listening to the derring-do tales of others? Ask WW why he writes his stories.

I suppose my own deepest wreck isn't much but it was the Munson, three times in two days. I think I maxed out at about 115' but that wasn't my toughest wreck. I've done several shallower dives that involved nasty currents and crummy viz that all added up to a higher degree of discomfort than the Munson offered.

Deep dive accounts are interesting for the technical aspects, most of which I will probably only get to read about. I'm particularly impressed with the conditions braved by the ocean wrecker fraternity when they do their drifting deco in lousy viz looking forward to getting back on a pitching boat for a long long ride to shore. We had 3 or 4' waves on the Munson and that was plenty for me. Imagine doing bumpier water with doubles and stages stuck all over yer body. Yikes!

JohnF

 

[vlada]

I did have a horror dive on it when the viz was about 1 ft and there was a decent current that actually threw me against the wreck couple of times

That was a very eerie dive - i now have probably close to 15 dives on Munson, but never experienced anything like that - there were moments when i could not figure out which part of the wreck i was at - and i know this wreck fairy well by now

Getting back to boat in the waves that were rolling over the boat was not fun. Being thrown off the ladder with the doubles on my back was even less fun. At least there was only 3 of us diving it that day - all the other boats did not leave their docks - lesson learnt - never dive in a storm

Vlada

 

[Chet]

I have to agree with Doppler, I have been on wrecks a little deeper then most, but everytime I dive the Empress it takes more of me then some of the others.
Be Safe Chet