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Ice Diving the Wreck of the Islander

Blake and I use cave diving techniques to explore shipwrecks under the ice.

Wreck Diving – Shipwreck Diving

    1. twoheadedelvis
      April 13th, 2007 at 21:57 | #1
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      Awesome video. Enjoyed the hell out of it.

    2. srvfan454
      June 25th, 2007 at 06:45 | #2
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      holy jeez, that just looks scary! scary but AWESOME!

    3. ColinKraut
      July 6th, 2007 at 18:38 | #3
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      Amazing, where is the wreck located?

    4. se2schul
      July 7th, 2007 at 01:00 | #4
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      The wreck is in the St Lawrence River near Alexandria Bay.

    5. ColinKraut
      July 7th, 2007 at 08:59 | #5
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      I’ve been up in that area, having grown up in the Midwest and traveled a lot as a kid.

    6. foziediver
      July 31st, 2007 at 08:36 | #6
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      Great shots would love to have done that dive!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    7. kevinmosleyI
      May 10th, 2008 at 23:05 | #7
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      Cool vid! :)

    8. EnergyDog23
      March 21st, 2009 at 13:28 | #8
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      Is it old wreck?

    9. cheltcanary
      June 2nd, 2009 at 09:20 | #9
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      Great vid!! as a diver myself tho who HASNT done cave or ice diving, why the stage cylinders? cant be for decompression as the dive seems quite shallow – also becuase of the cold doubt you’d want to be under more than an hour! is it for backup/redundancy only?

      many thanks

    10. se2schul
      June 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 | #10
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      Hi cheltcanary,

      Good observations. The stage isn’t needed for depth or distance or time. We only took them because the water was so cold that freeflows were a distinct possibility. The extra regulator on the stage bottle is just added redundancy which we wouldn’t have used if the water had been warmer. Thanks for the comments!

    11. cheltcanary
      June 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 | #11
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      many thanks! i guessed they must be for back up only (i dive UK cold waters – to 4degrees – but we make sure we have cold water kits fitted to our regs to reduce chance of free flow – we still carry a 3lt pony cylinder for redundancy tho if diving 25m -40m

      thanks anyway – great vid, hope to try ice diving one day!

    12. Rikasso66
      August 8th, 2009 at 12:32 | #12
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      I’m thinking that was not the wolf Ils ferry???

    13. se2schul
      August 8th, 2009 at 13:45 | #13
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      Not the Wolf Island Ferry. That’s just East of Kingson.
      This wreck is the Islander. It’s right in front of the town of Alexandria Bay in 40 ft of water.

    14. Rikasso66
      August 8th, 2009 at 14:07 | #14
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      I must say I’m sorry I did not read the title properly, once again my bad.

      Thanks.
      Do you guys have someone making your specailty gear ie:dive lights reels ect?

    15. se2schul
      August 8th, 2009 at 14:13 | #15
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      You must have been surprised… Expecting to see a big steel ferry and finding a little wooden wreck instead.

      The lights and reels are from Halcyon.

    16. Rikasso66
      August 8th, 2009 at 14:20 | #16
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      Are they made in Canada?

    17. se2schul
      August 8th, 2009 at 14:30 | #17
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      They’re made in the US, but there Canadian retailers who sell that brand.

    18. Rikasso66
      August 8th, 2009 at 14:36 | #18
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      Are they expensive. I use to make dive light, and reel’s but been away from diving so long I’m out of touch sorta with all this stuff

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