Eau Canada
By Jo-Ann Wilkins
PLAYGROUND UNDER ICE
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f you’re a diver in Ontario or Quebec, you’ve almost certainly heard of Morrison Quarry and it’s likely where you earned your Open Water Certification. Located in Wakefield, Quebec, it is the region’s most popular dive training site and, with its campground, sandy beach and bungee jumping platform, it’s also a great place for divers and non-divers alike to hangout on warm summer days. Divers enjoy clear blue/green water with a maximum depth of 129 feet (39m) and can explore the scuttled objects at various depths that make this site so unique. These include a plane, a tugboat, a mini submarine, a skidoo, two cars and a model of a great white shark (a.k.a. Morry). Personally, I love photographing the plane on the edge of the cliff and enjoy how the vivid yellow of the submarine stands out in my pictures against the blue/green water.
Morrison Quarry is even more spectacular in the winter months, when visibility can easily reach 100 feet (30m) and it’s definitely when I love the most to dive it. You enter the water through a hole in the ice and, for safety, are tethered with a rope to a tender at the
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surface and to your dive buddy. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to take good pictures when you have people on both ends who are tugging at the rope! Under the ice, I never get tired of seeing the spectacular light rays that penetrate through the ice hole entrance point and find it interesting to watch the expelled bubbles that move on the ice ceiling. Once in a while, I get a good laugh at the large and creative drawings in the overhead snow, done by people who spend a lot of effort shoveling patterns just to entertain the divers below. Even if you’ve dived the Quarry multiple times in the summer months, diving it under the ice is always fascinating and will give you a completely new perspective of this familiar site.
Photograph taken using a Nikon D300 with Tokina 10-17mm at 10mm in an Aquatica housing with
dual Ikelite DS-161 strobes. Exposure ISO 500, f7.1 at 1/60 second shutter speed.
For more images visit
www.aquapixels.com
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