Winter brings misery in the form of snowstorms/blizzards, winter travel advisories, and frequently brings travel to a halt. Even the…
Author: Kathy Dowsett
Kathy Dowsett
Kathy is the owner of Kirk Scuba Gear, a passionate Scuba Diver, Ocean Advocate and Managing Editor of The Scuba News Canada
A container ship (also known as a boxship or containership) is a cargo ship that transports all of its cargo…
Join us on January 24th, 2024 at 7 p.m. to hear Thierry Boyer discuss the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, as well…
Alexander Graham Bell invented the first airboat in 1905 in Nova Scotia, Canada. The British Army used airboats in the…
There are plenty of exciting activities to enjoy at The Aquatarium, such as exploring interactive exhibits, getting hands-on with marine…
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival is an annual event that highlights scuba diving adventures, shipwrecks, maritime history and technical advances.…
The John B. King was a drilling barge 140 feet long. It exploded and sank in the Brockville Narrows in…
The D.R. Owen was considered the first shipwreck of the Chequamegon Bay area of Lake Superior. Schooners were primarily designed for cargo,…
Argos are supposed to be amphibious – this one wasn’t! Amphibians An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian) is a vehicle…
“”In an effort to push myself exploring new bodies of water, instead of the Sackville River, Halifax Harbour and Prospect,…
The Great Lakes freighter SS Scotiadoc was a 424-foot (129-meter)-long, 48-foot (15-meter)-wide, and 23.75-foot (7.24-meter)-deep dry bulk freighter built in…
Found floating adrift on the Atlantic without a captain or crew, the Mary Celeste is one of the most famous…
Back in June 2023, The Scuba News Canada posted about Garrett Clement and a group of dive buddies scuba diving…
A Canadian-made nature series starring Vancouver Island’s famous sea wolves won four Emmys (after being nominated for seven), one of…
The lighting of the Signal Hill star, which takes place every December on Cabot Tower at the Signal Hill National…
Bell Island, Newfoundland, in Conception Bay, is home to four incredible WWII wrecks.These little-known Nazi German attacks on Canadian shores…
The Balize was a tugboat with a wooden hull that operated on the Great Lakes in the United States and…
Entrance Island is a small rocky island located 841 meters (2,759 feet) north of Gabriola Island in the Strait of…
The first video from Sharks4Kids new series, “The Fin Files” The amazing adaptations of the swell shark, great hammerhead, and…
The first aluminium submarine ever built was named Aluminaut and launched in 1964. The 80-ton, 15.5-metre (51 ft) crewed deep-ocean…
SS Chester A. Congdon (originally Salt Lake City) was a steel-hulled American lake freighter that served from 1907 to 1918.…
SS Arthur M. Anderson is a laker cargo ship. She is well-known for being the last ship to communicate with…
Cause Deep Down We Care! Welcome to Wreckwatch, the magazine and YouTube channel that brings you the world’s greatest lost…
Heritage Value The Margaretsville Lighthouse is a heritage lighthouse because of its historical, architectural, and community values. Margaretsville Lighthouse is…
New world record for cave diving exploration. On November 3, 2023, during a 7-hour dive in the Font d’Estramar resurgence…
Aside from looking forward to Christmas in 2023, we also look forward to the Reefs and Wrecks 2024 calendar, which…
The steamboat Oakes Ames was built in 1868 for the Rutland Railroad by the Napoleon B Proctor Shipyard in Burlington,…
According to Jeff Hummel, CEO of Rockfish, Inc. (Salvage Company), his crew believes they have located the SS Dix. He…
We lost one of our great ocean champions this week. Captain Don Walsh passed away on November 12, 2023 at…
CBC Radio has been airing programs I’ve hosted since the late 1980s. The prescience of the experts I spoke with as early…
The Forest City is one of Tobermory’s challenging dives. The Forest City, a three-masted timber schooner later converted to a…
When on board and facing the bow (front), port and starboard, which are nautical terms for ships, planes, and spacecraft,…
One diver, after a seemingly brief period below the surface, discovers that his gas supply has run perilously low. Another,…
A waterspout is a powerful columnar vortex that forms over water and typically resembles a funnel-shaped cloud. Some are associated…
We’ll be showcasing Chris’s videos in collaboration with The Scuba News Canada. These are educational and informative, and Chris admits…
The strike by the seaway workers has ended and Great Lake freighter traffic is starting up again on Monday, October…
HMCS Saskatchewan was a destroyer of the Mackenzie class that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and then in…
As of Saturday, October 21, 2023, midnight, UNIFOR employees who work for the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation are prepared…
November 29, 1966 on this day in history Only Dennis Hale survived of the 29 crew members when the SS Daniel J.…
Becky Kagan-Schott, an underwater videographer, explores the Sandusky shipwreck, one of thousands of perfectly preserved time capsules in the Great…
The Goderich Salt Mine (Sifto) is the largest underground salt mine in the world. The world’s largest underground salt mine,…
On a beautiful evening after work, Sean from Nova Scotia went out for another underwater exploration and clean-up. Now what…
On 14 October 1942, 78 years ago, at 3:40 am, the Newfoundland passenger ferry SS Caribou was torpedoed by the…
How should old fishing nets and ropes be prepared for recycling? In this video, we provide you with six easy…
Dr. Sam Willis delves into the origins of HMS Terror, which was inspired by the BBC series ‘The Terror,’ a…