Dive Notice: Wiarton, June 22, 2024

What’s below the surface? You will be amazed!
Type of dive: Shore diving, underwater navigation, cool things to investigate underwater, picnic lunch in the park
Suitable for: Divers of all levels, including newly certified divers.
Date: June 22, 2024
Location: Cedar Hill Park at Wiarton, ON.
Blue North Divemaster: Martin Bonert

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Registration

  • Send $20 shore dive fee by eTransfer to bluenorthscuba@gmail.com
  • Your registration will be finalized once we receive your eTransfer.

Deadline to Register

  • Please register by June 15, 2024.

Description
This is an excellent shore dive for:

  • newly certified divers to gain scuba experience, practice skills such as buoyany control and navigation with the supervision of a Divemaster at a site with easy access and gentle underwater slope
  • experienced divers to have a “warm-up” dive for the summer ahead
  • scuba divers to try out new equipment
  • new Blue North divemasters to gain experience with Martin
  • anyone who wants to have a little fun underwater, explore a new site, and hang out with fellow divers!
  • Entry: The entry is gradual with a rocky-sandy slope. There’s a grassy area along the beach, great for suiting up and picnicking.
  • Depth: The majority of the attractions underwater are at the 35 to 65 ft range. The descent is quite gradual, so Cedar Hill can accommodate many levels of dive experience. (Skip the Eiffel Tower, Rocket Ship and Santa if you want to stay above 50 ft.)
  • Water temperature: The water is fairly warm during the summer months – reaching approx. 15°C above the thermocline near shore. 7mm wetsuit diving should be comfortable.
  • Visibility: Cedar Hill is part of Georgian Bay which tends to have decent visibility even during summer months.
  • Fish: Some say you may see typical Canadian freshwater fish species like trout, perch, bass and lake whitefish if they don’t get scared away by underwater sightseers.
  • Underwater attractions: At Cedar Hill Park, you can visit quite a lot of different underwater features within a relatively small area – the dome, windmill, rocket, Eifel tower, little shipwreck, cemetery, skeleton, snowmobile, newspaper stand, computer, bicycle, and other goofy things added by divers for your entertainment. This site is fun and ideal for divers of all levels.  A great place to spend a day and practice your underwater navigation.
  • Picnic: Hang around for more diving, socializing, swimming, sunbathing, bring your own picnic lunch. 
  • Parking: Cedar Hill has free parking on a lane next to a canopy of trees, steps from the shore.
  • Washrooms: There are washrooms next to the lane.
  • A favourite shore dive site in terms of water visibility, access to the water, parking, picnic shore area and underwater features to explore.
Diagram photo credit: Free Spirit in Ski & Scuba

Blue North’s requirements to participate in the dive
These steps must be completed annually.
Note: All divers who attend the June Tobermory dive will have completed these steps already.

  1. Pay your annual Blue North membership fees for 2024 if you haven’t done so already.
  2. Fill in the annual Scuba Profile Form for 2024 if you haven’t done so already.
  3. Once the revised OUC Release has been published (date TBD), you will be prompted to fill in the revised OUC Release Form for 2024, citing both Blue North and HHUC as your Clubs, using your 2024 OUC number, which will be provided to you when you register.

To Register for Wiarton: Send $20 by eTransfer to bluenorthscuba@gmail.com by June 15, 2024

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