Posted by Mike Juskiw on December 30, 1999 at 23:33:17:
In Reply to: Bill 13 posted by Dustyn Farrow on December 28, 1999 at 17:10:09:
Congrats on getting certified,
I hope you get to see the wrecks in Ontario.
At 13 you are the reason we dont strip em.
Thanks for talking.
: I cannot believe that someone would even propose something so dumb as Bill 13. I
: am 13 years old and I just passed my diving course this summer. Now I'm am being told
: that I will not be able to dive on any wrecks with my dad, Rob Farrow. I didn't go through
: all the trouble of studying and open waters so that I could swim around on the bottom admiring the fish!
: My dad has written a letter opposing Bill 13 and has sent it to many MP's (members of
: parliament) and divers, I hope many other divers have and will do the same. As for Bill
: 13, it says it will preserve shipwrecks by prohibiting people from diving in them, but my
: question is, exactly who are they preserving these wrecks for? Prohibiting divers from
: doing what they love is not going to save a wreck. Wrecks, both wooden and steel, will
: eventually collapse on their own. An example of this is the Whale back Barge 115 wreck,
: it has already started to collapse under its own weight. Another example is the Mary Mclachlan,
: whose deck collapsed sometime over the winter of 96/97. With its deck gone it will eventually
: collapse and we will lose a part of our heritage, not due to diver carelessness, stripping,
: or damage but due to weather and time. There are those few divers who do strip wrecks,
: about 1% of the entire diving public, but why should they ruin it for the rest of us. I think
: that Bill 13 should be scrapped, for the sake of all divers.
: Thanks for reading,
: Dustyn Farrow