Clayton Dive Club New for April 2014

Upcoming club sponsored events:

1- Sat. April 12 at 7 PM at the Deep Down Divers dive shop at 7 East Main St. Gouverneur, NY: Skip Couch will present 'Shipwrecks of Clayton' and 'The Lost Fleet'.

2- Wed April 16 at 7 PM logon to www.diverstalk.com : One of the diving films from the series 'Legends of the 1000 Islands' with focus on the shipwreck A. E. Vickory. The footage was filmed in 1994 and will give divers a chance to see the changes of the wreck from 20 years ago.

3- Sat. April 26 at the Municipal Dock at 9 AM beside the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton. Volunteers are needed to prepare the Divers Access Dock for this season. Minor repairs will need to be made to the dock. Contact Skip Couch at 315-686-5102 if you plan to attend.

4- Sat. May 3 launching of the Divers Access Dock in Clayton. The dock will be towed to its position at the end of the town pier. Divers are needed to secure the chains to anchor the dock in place for the season. More details regarding the specific time will be posted later.

Membership dues for the 2014 dive season are now due. If you haven't already, visit the club website at www.claytondivingclub.net to obtain the release form and the mailing address for your 2014 membership.

For more club information contact Joe Dudiak <jdudiak@twcny.rr.com>   CDC Secratary

Steamer William J. Averill

Steam Barge Harvey J. Kendall

Schooner Magie L.

Steam Barge Arizona

 

Clayton Dive Club news!

The Clayton Dive Club announced their 2014 Dive Schedule as follows.

Work on Clayton Diver's Access (Date to be determined)
Dive On Clayton Diver's Access-May 17
Dive Rothsay and Conastoga-June 21
East Cliff Hall-July 12
Brockville Dive-August 16
Trash Dive (Clayton)-Sept. 20
Vickery Dive-Oct. 4

You can follow the dive club at http://www.diverstalk.com/  for some interesting discussions at 7 PM on the following dates:

- March 12 - Diver safety lead by a professor from London England.
- March 19 - See some of the latest Diving video games
- March 26 Commercial treasure diving from Key West, Florida
The archives of past meetings are now available on the website.

Underwater junkyard of abandoned cars and trucks.

Grindstone Island, Clayton NY: underwater junkyard of abandoned cars and trucks.

The cars and trucks of this underwater junkyard were purposely abandoned on the ice. Disposing of unwanted junk in the River was a common practice during the 19th and first half of the 20th century.  One of many dive sites in "Dive the Thousand Island"

 

 

 

 

Clayton Diving Club's 2013 Chrismas Parade!

The Clayton N.Y. 51st Annual Christmas Parade theme was A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES. Clayton Diving Club's float recalling the memories of the classicscience fiction novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. The book had several movie including animated ones with variants story lines.

 Sitting on their Nautilus was a large black Octopus and leading the floatwas a glowing jellyfish. Walking besides the float were hardhat divers with their helmet mounted with lights.

Displayed on the tow vehicle was the original Clayton Diving Club red scubaflag with its distinctive white vertical bar that dates from the 1960's. 

 Watch the CDC Parade Video

Clayton Dive Club dive of the  Maggie L. Dive June 16, 2013

Pictured below are some of the Club Members, Chris Malinowski, Chris Drescher, Ken Kozin, John Krake,Kathi McCarthy and Lisa Goodlin.  Pictures by Dennis McCarthy