Atlantic Divers

The Serious Wreck Divers Choice! Safe Wreck Diving through Education and Quality Leadership. Register Today for Spring 2021 starting Tuesday March 23, 6 p.m. Orientation Do your class and pool sessions just before the spring, do your certification dives with Atlantic Divers when the waters are teaming with lobster, fish and clear! Atlantic Divers o... ffers ocean certifications on historic Cape May shipwrecks. Jump right in and catch your dinner on your first ocean dive! Taking names now for underwater adventurers! Don't miss the boat! Register for Cape May Special Services Pool! Course fee: $600.00 includes ELEARNING program, Class and pool training, All scuba equipment except for personal mask, fins snorkel, boots, gloves required for sessions. Open water dives additional cost. Lets start this story where the hunt began. In the early eighties, Gary Gentile invited some hearty north-east wreckers to explore shipwrecks along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia. The saturation of nautical history and the number of lost ships in the approaches to this rock laden port is vast. Haligonian divers had become accustom to hiking long, steep, unstable trails to reach divable areas. At the time, converted fishing/dive boats were sporadically available. Gary had researched new areas to explore. He promised adventure, discovery and arduous days bouldering up and down cliffs to search for barely visited or virgin sites. He kept his word; many perilous treks and exhausting hikes brought those divers to several concealed wrecks. Deep diving beyond one-hundred-thirty feet was also in its infancy. Many wrecks in Halifax Harbour were past the sanctioned limits of the sport diving community. The area was ripe for deep wreck hunting. Sources were limited for those researching. In the seventies and eighties, there was no internet, any research was accumulated by days of examining news articles, scanning microfilm, or reviewing dusty charts and manuscripts in libraries, museums, and other nautical sources. Wreck researcher, Jack Zink ...Read More