Divernet News, dateline 20 January 2004
Canadian divers hope to sink Boeing 737
Divers are planning to sink a 33m-long, stripped-down, ex Air Canada Boeing 737 at Vancouver Island to provide a new dive site.
Comox Valley Dive Association and the Artificial Reef Society are hoping their application for permission to sink
the commercial airliner in 26m of water off Vancouver Island will win the approval of Environment Canada.
If given the go-ahead, the airliner will become the seventh artificial reef sunk in Canadian waters -
the previous six were ships.
The Boeing 737 currently belongs to Air Canada and is kept at Vancouver International Airport. It has
already been stripped to a shell and cleaned of pollutants.
A previous application to sink the airliner at Sechelt Inlet was turned down by the local authorities who
were unconvinced that it would attract the levels of interest and increased business revenue that the organisers were claiming.
The Canadians are notoriously fussy about vessels being sunk in their waters - as demonstrated last year when a
US-based diving and salvage company
mistakenly sunk a wreck in Canadian fishing grounds.
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