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Originally published in: http:// www.huffingtonpost.ca/../ ../stephen-weir/ sink-captain-johns-create_b _4475196.html Toronto, It's Time to Sink This Ship .... and Captain John doesn't have to go down with Her. Bow of Capt. John's Floating Seafood Restaurant Sometime on my bum-busting boat ride out from Fort Myers, I realized that the city of Toronto could do something special for its diver tourism industry ... sink the Captain John Toronto Harbour Floating Restaurant. I was in Florida last month, on board a small, open boat heading 21/2 hours out into the wilds of the Gulf of Mexico to scuba dive on a failed Florida Keys museum. I like hundreds of thousands of other divers will go just about anywhere to dive on a shipwreck. Thirty miles out and 90 feet down, the USS Mohawk, sunk just a year ago, is now one of the most sought after underwater attractions in Florida waters. And for the last few months she has hosted an underwater art show that is gar

ONTARIO 2012: Fatalities - Summaries & Recommendations I am assisting the Ontario Underwater Council with the writing of fatality reports following the death of any scuba diver in provincial waters.  I have posted an earlier version of the report - what follows is current as of April 29, 2012.  The report was put together by: Stephen Weir          Sport Safety Consultant Ayisha Hassanali    Sport Safety Consultant Raimund Krob         Sport Safety Advisor One can see a more complete version of this report at the Ontario Underwater Council's website  http://www.underwatercouncil.com/?action=cms&cmspage=safety-scubaincidents&parent_cmspage1=safety   Fatalities - Summaries and Recommendations are listed in chronological order. Date of Incident:     2012-04-13   Summary: Dive Site: On Friday, April 13 th , a 58-year old Caledon woman (Judy Ann Swann) and her husband (Eric Tolton) were planning on doing a dive to check out her bran

 Humber Bay Dive Incident: 58-year old woman passes in Toronto hospital I recently volunteered to help the Ontario Underwater Council research and write fatality reports - accurate information about accidents that occur in the Province while people are diving. The reports are meant to give reliable/factual data to the dive community and to make recommendations on how to make the sport safer (based on the facts of the incident). I had hoped I would go the whole year without having to work on a report.  Sadly that is not the case. A 58-year old woman died this week following a Friday April 13th incident in Toronto at Lake Ontario's Humber Bay. What follows is the report that has been posted on the Ontario Underwater Council web site.  It is reposted here because I write about diving and have built up a following of visitors looking for scuba information. Location of the park. Not accurate as to the location of the incident Date of Incident: 2012-04-13 Summary: A woman wa