The Future of Picton's Shipwrecks: Preserving Marine Heritage for the Next Generation

Event type: All Ages

Corey Phillips from Save Ontario Shipwrecks joins us to discuss the current state of Picton-area shipwrecks, and what is being done to preserve them for future generations of divers.

About Corey Phillips:

My wife comes up with the most amazing gifts. In 2002, she “gifted” me with getting open water certified. Diving on evening charters, I expanded my knowledge and skills with the GUE Fundamentals and eventually Tech 1 courses. Once I had in-water skills, I wanted to go places that hadn’t been explored in some time, usually long forgotten shipwrecks using a “shotline” as my only guide to the bottom. Ever since I have been hooked on diving. I have not had much opportunity to dive outside of Ontario but have visited Nova Scotia, P.E.I., Vancouver, Florida, and Tortola, completing dives in each location.

Highlights of my diving background:

– 900+ dives.
– Technical diver certified to 170’ using normoxic trimix, deco gases 50%, and 100% oxygen.
– DPV (Underwater scooter)
– No touch diving techniques used.
– Videographer and Photographer.
– Past Vice-President of Preserve Our Wrecks (Kingston).
– Involved in getting a mooring block installed on the shipwreck, the Eureka.
– Current Mooring Director of Save Ontario Shipwrecks – Picton Chapter.
– Working away at getting all moorings up to SOS Corporate standard.
– Member of the Florence project, which installed a block and line.
– Current diver on the P-51 Mustang project
– Officer Barry Newman recovery team
– Shot video in Little Marble Lake and passed it on so the Cloyne and District Historical Society
– Co-founder of Ontario Diving on Facebook (over 3700 members).
– Co-founder of shotlinediving.com, which documents shipwrecks and is quickly becoming the go-to location to track wrecks in Ontario waters.