Diving in Glacier National Park July 2009

[DetectorGuy]

No, that was my flag that got pulled under. I was swimming toward the bow on the starboard side. Most of the vertical wall that made the cabin was still standing on this side above the deck. When I got down to about 50' deep, the vis started getting bad so I cut across the wreck toward the bow side. Thats when my flag line hooked the wall on what I thought was an open top wreck. It was kinda tangley near the bow. I should have just tied the flag to the stern and picked it up later. I made this mistake on my first dive at the Madeira too.

[DetectorGuy]

Ok I downloaded 3 more videos of the Devils Gorge Dam dive (parts 1, 2, and 3). Each part is about 9 1/2 minutes long. The first part is the decent, the first half of the dam, and a plaque placed there by a dive club called Trident Divers.

[DetectorGuy]

This is the second part of the video. It is of the second half of the dam. The wing wall at the end of this side of the dam is made of logs unlike the wing wall on the first side of the dam.

[DetectorGuy]

This is the this is the third part of the video. It is of my slow ascent making my way from the old dam to the base of the new dam and then swimming up the new (1941) dam to the surface. There is a 55 gallon drum with 3 wearblades from snoplows concreted into it to make a very heavy anchor. (the 50 lbs lift bag I had with would not quite cut it from the bottom, and no I did not try). There is a small makeshift rock statue one of the previous divers made while taking their 3 minute safety stop.

[freedivernd]

no fish?

[DetectorGuy]

I did not see any fish at Minnewanka, but I got some still photos of a rainbow trout I caught in Georgetown Lake MT, a couple photos of Artic Grayling swimming in Lake McDonald, and a bunch of video of Mountain Whitefish at the stern of the paddle wheeler Gertrude on upper Waterton Lake. I will post those later...

[DetectorGuy]

Here is part 2 of the Gertrude paddle wheeler dive video: (there are some fish in this one)

[DetectorGuy]

Here is some photos of the East side of Lake McDonald:

[DetectorGuy]

Here are some photos of the West side of Lake McDonald" The first one is of an Artic Grayling, the second and third one is the edge of the drop off, the fourth one is of a "mud stone" (what the mountains are made of here)

[DetectorGuy]

Here are some from Lake Minnewanka: The first 3 are of the lake, the 4th is of an Ice Explorer used to bring tourists up on the Columbia Ice fields between Banff and Jasper. (Hey Shooter, this would make a great "RADVe")