Kingston wreck diving

Diving The Eureka Wreck, Kingston, Lake Ontario.

June 11, 2018
Great Lakes Shipwrecks / Lake Ontario / Shipwrecks

Eureka wreck near Kingston, Lake Ontario. — The Eureka wreck. The stock of a large anchor can be seen here sitting upright on the port bow. Note the broken bow sprit, which lies partially on the Lake bottom at the starboard bow.

June 2018.

The Eureka is a 130′ pre-Civil War , double-masted schooner. The ship foundered on Nov.1, 1883 due to a gale, enroute from Oswego, New York to Kingston with a load of coal . With luck the captain and six crew managed to escape without loss of life.

Only a handful of people have seen this wreck since it sank 135 years ago, and these are the first ever published photographs of this beautiful wreck. Needless to say, this is one wreck I’ll never forget dropping down on.

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Kingston Wreck Diving- the City of Sheboygan wreck and the Wolfe Island Graveyard.

October 9, 2016
Great Lakes Shipwrecks / Lake Ontario

October, 2016.

When the weather is calm it’s time to take advantage of some of the more exposed, and seldom dived wrecks. One such wreck is the three masted schooner “The City of Sheboygan”, which lies deep in a very exposed area south of Amherst Island. It’s well preserved, mostly intact and regarded as one of Kingston’s “A” wrecks. The other wrecks on this dive- the “Wire Schooner” and “Bismarck”- are unidentified, rarely visited, and have their final resting place in an area that is known as the “Wolfe Island Graveyard”.

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Kingston wreck diving, Lake Ontario- Timing is Everything. Diving the George Davie and the Glendora wrecks.

October 2, 2014
Great Lakes Shipwrecks / Lake Ontario / Shipwrecks

wheel of the George T. Davie wreck. — The Davie’s wheel is still at the stern. It was steam-power assisted.

(September 27, 2014)
Timing is everything in the late summer on the Great Lakes. It tends to be windy as the temperature difference between the land and water is at its greatest. I had two charters cancelled. But last weekend I took advantage of some nice weather at the last minute, and put together a charter for Saturday afternoon. Except a late first morning group, and a first response to a Mayday call almost derailed that plan too.

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