Fort Mississauga Dive Number 120

Sunday, September 30 – 2007
13:15 – 15:20
Dive Number 120
Start: 13:00
Roads: Dry / clear
Visibility: 24km
Temp: +23C
Water Temp: +19C
Area: Niagara Region
Vehicle: Black Sunfire
Weather: Clear and Sunny
Visibility: 3m
Divers: Wolf, Chuck
Dive Wench(es): None!
Maximum Depth: 2m
Plan: Explore the Fort Mississauga Area

Chuck and I kitted up at the parking lot near Ft. Mississauga and made our way down to the beach and into the water which was crystal clear and smooth as glass. We swam out eastbound towards the fort at the mouth of the Niagara River and past the golf course. The bottom was mostly sand with large patches of algae all over it. Some of the algae conformed to the lines of the sand bars. It was a long dive and I found a large metal disc attached to a pipe. Chuck observed what may have been an old cannon ball about the size of a baseball, which he left in the pile of rocks where he observed it.

We swarm around the fort and there wasn’t much to see really.

I used the hot-pink 12L aluminum Tank of Tori’s as well as my Sherwood 1st stage and Suunto Lux dive computer and aga mask, seaQuest diamond BCD and Tusa Liberator fins. The visibility was not bad at 3m with a maximum depth of only 2m. After the dive we had to use chucks car to help out two blokes in kilts from Ohio as their green Ford car had a dead battery. After we visited Tori who was at work in the government offices, we went to the Cheese Shop in Niagara-on-the-Lake.