Three Wrecks and a Pipe Dream: a 3-wreck scooter loop from Perkins Pier

Yesterday we scootered about 4.5 miles around Burlington Bay in Lake Champlain, visited three shipwrecks, and surfaced 3 hours and 50 minutes later. I was cold and very thirsty but the dive was a success. Skipping the heated vest was definitely a bad idea, even in 53 degree water. Although to be fair I could have just worn thicker undergarements. The dive plan started the way all bad ideas start: I looked at a nautical chart and said, “You know, I wonder if we could scooter to these wrecks from…

General Butler and Burlington Breakwater DPV Dive (Lake Champlain)

The NOAA marine forecast for New England did not look great last weekend so both the Saturday and Sunday dive charters I signed up for were cancelled. Shocking I know for this time of year in New England.. 🙁 Since I begrudging spent Saturday working on house projects I needed to dive somewhere on Sunday for my own sanity. We polled the usual dive group and it was decided we would shoot up to Burlington, Vermont (Lake Champlain) and do a DPV dive up there while the water temperatures are…