Our second dive in the St. Lawerence river was very close to shore at the Centeen Memorial Dive Park. Creation of the park started in 2015 with the assistance of the City of Brockville, as well and the students of the local schools who constructed many of the statues. The park centres on five human sculptures looking upward as a memorial to those who have lost their lives on the busy St. Lawrence seaway.

Memorial Statues

Surrounding the memorial statues the park has many more statues laid out in concentric circles for easy navigation. 

Centeen Park Dive Sive

I found this little crawfish hanging out on one of the park benches. There wasn't a lot of wildlife in the area so it was good to find something down there.

Crawfish

We continued to explore the site and stopped to check out almost all of the statues.

Sturgeon

Concrete clownfish

Boozer

Boozer

Couple

Mermaid

There was even a structure spelling out SOS (Save Our Shipwrecks). An initiative to protect the shipwrecks in the area. It provided a good opportunity to practice buoancy by doing swim-throughs of the letters. The visibilty here was better than on the Daryaw but it was still difficult to make objects out at a distance.

SOS

That ended our dive and we surfaced to warm up on the trip back to the dock.

Location: Brockville, Ontario, Canada

Dive Number:   119 Bottom Time: 45m Time In: 12:24 p.m. Tank In: Max Depth: 34.00 ft Table Used:

Mix:   Air Safety Stop: 3m Time Out: 1:09 p.m. Tank Out: Average Depth: 27.00 ft Start Pressure Group:

Surface Interval:   1h 11m End Pressure Group:

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