Stacked Hulls Kingston

[Sirius Diver]

Hey all!

I was here, Ontario Scuba Diving site reading about the Stacked Hulls shore dive.

http://www.scubaq.ca/ontarioscubadiving/index.htm,

Is it really a 20 min swim to the wreck(s)? :11:

 

[Eric__U]

hey,

i did this dive several times earier in the season. Its around a 20min swim and has a max depth of around 50.

eric

 

[Tom R]

Hey all!

I was here, Ontario Scuba Diving site reading about the Stacked Hulls shore dive.

http://www.scubaq.ca/ontarioscubadiving/index.htm,

Is it really a 20 min swim to the wreck(s)? :11:

I took him there so his timing is actually off, it was 21 mins there and 19 mins back. http://www.northerntechdiver.com/shoredives/stackedhulls/stackedhulls.php

 

[Sirius Diver]

Thanks Eric, I guess it's a surface swim? I wouldn't have enough air on a single, right?

hey,

i did this dive several times earier in the season. Its around a 20min swim and has a max depth of around 50.

eric

 

[Sirius Diver]

I took him there so his timing is actually off, it was 21 mins there and 19 mins back. http://www.northerntechdiver.com/shoredives/stackedhulls/stackedhulls.php

But it 'feels' more like 20 mins right?

 

[PatH]

Thanks Eric, I guess it's a surface swim? I wouldn't have enough air on a single, right?

Normally there is too much surface traffic for it to be a surface swim.

 

[jrtonkin]

From personal experience, you can just barely do the whole dive submerged on a single tank.

And by "just barely" I mean make the 20min swim out, spend about one minute on the wreck, make the 20min swim back in, and finish with about 5-700 left in the tank.

On the other hand, given the amount of surface traffic, some people would consider this a virtual overhead dive (i.e. going directly to the surface in an emergency isin't an option), in which case your buddie's single won't have enough gas to get you back to shore underwater if a problem develops.

Jamie

 

[Eric__U]

we did the dive underwater to the hulls. There is a trend further back about where the line starts. We did it with doubles. around 60min bt

 

[Sirius Diver]

we did the dive underwater to the hulls. There is a trend further back about where the line starts. We did it with doubles. around 60min bt

Thanks for all your help! Maybe this should be a boat dive, hehe...

 

[FreeFloat]

Or, at least a warning of some sort put on the site advising about the hazards (long swim, potentially dangerous level of surface traffic, etc) to prevent well-meaning out-of-towners from trying to do the dive because they saw it listed as a shore site. I've personally had to talk a few people out of regarding it as a nice easy Marine-Museum-ish shore site.