Wolfe Islander II, Kingston ON			N 44° 13.5', W 76° 24.9'
Dive Number 45		Buddy Jean-Olivier	Surface temp 17°C	Starting pressure 2950psi
Depth 79ft	Visibility good	Time 31m	Water temp 11°C	Ending pressure 950psi
Notes:	Jean-Olivier and I were the first on the wreck of the Wolfe tonight (the Queen Mary dive was rerouted because of weather), and we quickly descended on the bow and navigated around the base of the ship. We looked for the open door at the front of the engine room from the outside, but got disoriented, so instead we went in from the chimney and swam out from there. We also ventured into the salon before coming up. There was agreement about the cool temp at the bottom; I had been diving with a beanie instead of a hood. Mike was diving wet for the first time in over a year (his drysuit is under repair).

Marine Museum, Kingston ON			N 44° 13.4', W 76° 28.2'
Dive Number 44		Buddy Sylvain	Surface temp 26°C	Starting pressure 2850psi
Depth 37ft	Visibility good	Time 35m	Water temp 15°C	Ending pressure 1550psi
Notes:	Sylvain had suggested that after our charter dive to the Munson tonight, anyone interested should consider a night dive at the Marine Museum. Our usual entry at the museum was unavailable, but Scott and Kim (who had been on the Munson with us) joind us for some supper at the Lone Star, and we all joined Jim and Tracey after sundown for the dive. The dive was gentle and uneventful; we saw lots of perch (or were they walleye? Scott thought so), some mudpuppies and some catfish. Feeling a bit of a chill, Sylvain and I turned around and navigated back to shore neatly. Also a footnote, I have started estimating the quality of the visibility instead of the length, so instead of writing things like "~25ft", I'l put more useful info like "excellent", "good", or "crap".

The Munson, Kingston ON			N 44° 12.6', W 76° 36.5'
Dive Number 43		Buddy Sylvain	Surface temp 30°C	Starting pressure 3050psi
Depth 108ft	Visibility good	Time 24m	Water temp 8°C	Ending pressure 1250psi
Notes:	Only six of us came out for the club's charter dive this week. It was Sylvain's first dive on the Munson and my first dive with my new gear: BC, reg, and my own weights. All in all it went well, but I was a little frazzled going down the line (with a little water creeping in my mask as well), and after 14 minutes in the cold, I was ready to turn around and come up.

Wolfe Islander II, Kingston ON			N 44° 13.5', W 76° 24.9'
Dive Number 42		Buddy Sylvain	Surface temp 28°C	Starting pressure 3000psi
Depth 75ft	Visibility ~30ft	Time 31m	Water temp 11°C	Ending pressure 1000psi
Notes:	I am beginning to think that the Aloha/Effie Mae doesn't exist. This may be the fourth time that I have been on a dive to it which has been changed to the Wolfe Islander because of high winds. Fortunately the Wolfe continues to offer us new excitement. In a break from our usual convention, we were the first ones off the boat, and saw no one else on the wreck for a while. We used my line to navigate each other through the engine room, and also found the bubble of stale air in the salon. It's kind of surreal to be at a depth of 50 or 60 feet and take your reg out of the mouth to speak. You have to put it back in to breathe though! I remember feeling last year like I had been on the Wolfe so many times that it had nothing more to offer me, so it's a treat to discover so much more!

Brule Road Quarry, Westbrook, ON			N 44° 17.0', W 76° 38.9'
Dive Number 41		Buddies Mike, Theresa, Joan, Kevin	Surface temp 23°C	Starting pressure 3100psi
Depth 24ft	Visibility ~50ft	Time 65m	Water temp 15°C	Ending pressure 1600psi
Notes:	Since I am thinking of buying a regulator and BCD, I arranged with Mike to try his "wing" style BC. We met with the others at the club, and headed over to the Brule Road Quarry, where many others have been underwater before, but where I had not yet been. In addition to the couple of small sunken boats and shopping carts in the warm shallow water, there is a 2006 Hyundai Santa Fe on its roof. Since many of the wrecks I find under water are a hundred years old or older, seeing such a recent artifact is kind of novel. There was part of me that thought "The tires don't appear to have much wear on them. I wonder if they would fit the Element." The wing worked well, and I was relatively trim and balanced. I'm not sure it makes a big enough difference to buy one at this point, but I was glad to have tried it and to have shared a great dive at a new location. Lunch afterwards at Bella (next to Northern Tech Diver) was also tasty - their eggplant soup with potato and leek was awesome!

Treasure Hunt, Nicholson Point, Amherstview ON			N 44° 12.3', W 76° 40.9'
Dive Number 40		Buddy Sylvain	Surface temp 21°C	Starting pressure 3100psi
Depth ~35ft	Visibility ~50ft	Time 45m	Water temp 15°C	Ending pressure 1750psi
Notes:	The treasure hunt is a yearly tradition with the dive club - they knock a bunch of numbered golf balls into the water, and the divers are allowed to return with one each. The ball were numbered from 1 to 30, and they announced that they'd start with either 1 or 30, so Sylvain and I assumed that we'd be smart to get numbers as far from 15 as possible. We both went without hoods, and I wore only my thin gloves (hoping for better desterity, and still nursing a sore thumb from a windsurfing injury). There were 18 divers in the water, but before too long, he had found the 30 and I had the 1. Mike tossed a coin to see who would choose first - I won, and got a coupon for a 2-tank dive with Luc out of Rockport for me and a buddy. Sylvain's number was called before too long, and he won what he wanted anyway - a gift Certificate to Casa Domenico. He also won one of the grand prizes - a Tim Horton's gift basket! There was a line that we didn't follow to its end; also we saw a sad injured looking fish on the bottom with a crooked spine that didn't even move when I dropped my golf ball on it. Our families came for a nice picnic afterwards, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.

Wolfe Islander II, Kingston ON			N 44° 13.5', W 76° 24.9'
Dive Number 39		Buddies Sylvain, Jean-Olivier	Surface temp 15°C	Starting pressure 2750psi
Depth 74ft	Visibility ~30ft	Time 30m	Water temp 11°C	Ending pressure 1150psi
Notes:	There were two boats for tonight's charter to the Comet, one leaving from Portsmouth Harbour, and one from Collins Bay. When whitecaps forced us to cancel the Comet, our boat went back the Wolfe Islander, and the other boat cancelled its run, and its divers went for a shore dive at a quarry. After last week, Sylvain and I had decided to penetrate the salon, and take a look at the engine room. I had a slow leak because of a macerated O-ring, but Steve from Limestone fixed it before we went down. There's an air bubble in the salon where you can stick your head up and speak (we've been cautioned not to attempt to breathe it), but with three of us, we didn't go try that. The engine room is accessible through a large hatch on the aft deck, and once down in it, there's plenty of space to look around. Even though we've done the Wolfe so many times before, we continue to find new things to see and do!

Wolfe Islander II, Kingston ON			N 44° 13.5', W 76° 24.9'
Dive Number 38		Buddies Sylvain, Richard	Surface temp 18°C	Starting pressure 3050psi
Depth 69ft	Visibility ~30ft	Time 29m	Water temp 9°C	Ending pressure 1650psi
Notes:	Sylvain and I used our usual approach of being the last ones in the water tonight, and for this reason, were still on the surface when another diver [Megan] had to abort her dive because of an equipment failure. Since her buddy Richard would have been faced with aborting as well, we invited him to join us. After a false start descending, we made it down to the familiar wreck. Sylvain and I have contemplated penetrating the "salon", but were feeling ambivalent about it, and the presence of a third [non-advanced] diver in our party made any such penetration a non-issue. The bottom water was cool, but the motorcycle and bicycle remain there. I didn't see any bowling balls tonight...

The King Horn, Rockport ON			N 44° 22.6', W 75° 55.9'
Dive Number 37		Buddy Sylvain, Steve	Surface temp 16°C	Starting pressure 3000psi
Depth 89ft	Visibility ~50ft	Time 22m	Water temp 10°C	Ending pressure 1350psi
Notes:	This was my first charter dive of the 2007 summer, my first "advanced" dive with Sylvain. Mike, Jim, Scott and Kim were there, as were Diane and Nancy. The dive itself was good; Sylvain and I came up after about 20 minutes, we're realizing that in the deeper dives, it's the timing at depth that will limit us more than running out of air. After the dive, we had some pizza and drinks at Caiger's. Next dive is the Wolfe Islander in 7 days!

Dead Man's Bay, Kingston ON			N 44° 14.0', W 76° 26.9'
Dive Number 36		Buddies Dominique, Mike, Steve	Surface temp 10°C	Starting pressure 2900psi
Depth 16ft	Visibility ~30ft	Time 27m	Water temp 6°C	Ending pressure 1800psi
Notes:	For my first local dive of the year, I joined Dominique, Steve, and Mike at the club, and we headed over to Dead Man's Bay. I had picked up a few new things which I made use of today: My new items included: a new 5mm full hood new MEC boots (made for kayaking, firmer than my old scuba boots) a new MEC surfshirt a used (but new to me) dive computer I picked up at Dive Tech this week The water was 6 degrees (a new record cold for me), so I only stayed under for 27 minutes overall, for a viewing of what we had previously suspected was the Regent, but we now think is the Charlotte (or is it the Queen Charlotte or Princess Charlotte?). For what it's worth, my trunk remained warm. I'll still be happy to find a solution that results in more warmth for my fingers and feet, but the water's only getting warmer at this point anyway. Another season begins!