The Future of Picton's Shipwrecks: Preserving Marine Heritage for the Next Generation

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Event type: All Ages

Corey Phillips from Save Ontario Shipwrecks joins us to discuss the current state of Picton-area shipwrecks, and what is being done to preserve them for future generations of divers.

About Corey Phillips:

My wife comes up with the most amazing gifts. In 2002, she “gifted” me with getting open water certified. Diving on evening charters, I expanded my knowledge and skills with the GUE Fundamentals and eventually Tech 1 courses. Once I had in-water skills, I wanted to go places that hadn’t been explored in some time, usually long forgotten shipwrecks using a “shotline” as my only guide to the bottom. Ever since I have been hooked on diving. I have not had much opportunity to dive outside of Ontario but have visited Nova Scotia, P.E.I., Vancouver, Florida, and Tortola, completing dives in each location.

Highlights of my diving background:

- 900+ dives.
- Technical diver certified to 170’ using normoxic trimix, deco gases 50%, and 100% oxygen.
- DPV (Underwater scooter)
- No touch diving techniques used.
- Videographer and Photographer.
- Past Vice-President of Preserve Our Wrecks (Kingston).
- Involved in getting a mooring block installed on the shipwreck, the Eureka.
- Current Mooring Director of Save Ontario Shipwrecks – Picton Chapter.
- Working away at getting all moorings up to SOS Corporate standard.
- Member of the Florence project, which installed a block and line.
- Current diver on the P-51 Mustang project
– Officer Barry Newman recovery team
- Shot video in Little Marble Lake and passed it on so the Cloyne and District Historical Society
- Co-founder of Ontario Diving on Facebook (over 3700 members).
- Co-founder of shotlinediving.com, which documents shipwrecks and is quickly becoming the go-to location to track wrecks in Ontario waters.

I enjoy passing images and videos from my passion for those who don’t dive to see.

http://chaa-recovery.org
https://saveontarioshipwrecks.ca/chapters/picton
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cdhs/49949981311