May 24, 2014 Chemainus drydock wrecks photos/report
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Dr Dog
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great shots
RonixWarrior
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Awesome shots, i notices a foggy layer inside that wreck hull. Would that be from the wood structure decaying??
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MarkH
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Could be. maybe including hydrogen sulfide/bacteria/colder trapped water.
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Yeah that what i was thinking. Like what you see in Cenotes down in Mexico.
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I went back today to take some video of the 3 drydocks. Visibility was much less. -Maybe 10'. I got a bit lost and ended up finding a fourth drydock. This one was shallower and had more life.
The last of the dry docks only sank this winter. Jan or Feb. We dived on the three that were already on the bottom using a transect line tied to the remaining floater. Came back a couple of weeks later and the final one had sunk and it couldn't have cleared another by much as they were close together. The fate of these docks illustrates some of the many problems we have with derelict vessels in our waters and of the shoddy planning processes that enable developers to abandon such a mess to the public.
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