Cape Vincent Dive Club

The Cape Vincent Dive Club will provide Scuba demonstrations during Cape Vincent's "A day on the River" activities, Saturday August 25th.  

Some of the following activities:
1)  Brief presentation regarding the clubs efforts in the community to promote diving locally.  
2)  Explanations of the various equipment used in recreational diving.
3)  Demonstrations of gearing up, using the buddy system.
4)  Demonstrations of a deep water entry from the end of the dock.
Two demonstration times, one at 11:00 AM and again at 1:00 PM



CVDC diving the Wolfe Island II

Night Dive with the CVDC



45 years ago!

The Clayton Diving Club Inc. was formed in 1967 and incorporated in 1968. It went on to buy land, had several dive boats and for over 30 years operated as an active Dive Club. In the late 1990's its numbers decreased and eventfully it divested itself of its assets and functionally stopped operating.
 
This video provides a glimpse into the exciting and interesting first years of sport scuba diving in the Thousand Islands. In 2010 a new Clayton Diving Club formed to carry on the rich tradition of scuba diving in Clayton, NY. http://claytondivingclub.net/

Video by: www.tiasd.com
Pictures: Skip Couch, Dennis & Kathi McCarthy
Song: "Ghost Fleet" by Tom Booth, Watertown NY (2010)

Schooner A. E. Vickery

August 17, 1889, the three-masted wooden schoonerA. E. Vickery struck the shoal above Rock Island Lighthouse while entering the AmericanNarrows with cargo of 21,000 bushels of corn destined for Wiser’s Distillery at Prescott, Ontario. She was launched July 1861 at Three Mile Bay, N.Y. as the J.B. Penfield and renamed the A. E. Vickery on February 25th, 1884. She was about 130 feet long by 26 feet wide and had a depth of hold of 11 feet

Side scan of the A.E. Vickery

Vickery's bow and hawse pipe

Vickery's windless and tow bit

Vickery's main deck

Vickery port hull

Dive the Islander, Clayton Diving Club, June 16th, 10 AM.

Composite photo of the wreck of the Islander, Alex Bay, NY.

Steam Barge Arizona

South of Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada across from Cape Vincent, NY
St. Lawrence River.

GPS: 44° 7.37N, 76° 23.018W

History:

In 1922 the wooden propeller Arizona was the oldest steam barge on the Great Lakes. Launched in 1868, she had been rebuilt several times and was in good repair when she stopped at Cape Vincent on December 6th, 1922. She was on a return trip from Brockville, Ontario and heading to Oswego, NY. On the morning of December 7th, she caught fire at the Cape Vincent Break Wall. The Arizona was 188 feet long by 33 feet in beam. The raging fire onboard prevented her from being towed into deep water and she sunk at her moorings.  In 1923 the hull of the Arizona was raised from the break wall and fitted with pontoons so it could be moved to a location outside the navigation channels. It was then sunk using 200 pounds of dynamite. (From "Dive the Thousand Islands")

 

Photos: Dennis McCarthy 2012

Prop

Hull

Boilers

Diver and prop

Windless

Bow area