{"id":3212,"date":"2008-04-04T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2021-02-28T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T22:23:22","slug":"nda-shipwrecks-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/nda-shipwrecks-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"NDA &#8211; Shipwrecks 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chippawa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chippawa.jpg 548w, https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chippawa-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chippawa-73x60.jpg 73w, https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chippawa-110x90.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chippawa Investigation <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the Niagara River, the Welland River (which flows through the Village of Chippawa), has been visited and dove by literally thousands of divers over the years.&nbsp; Although in almost every case this can be a very enjoyable dive, there are several areas and conditions in the rivers that can make diving extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 16, 2007 a group of five divers visited the area.&nbsp; Two ended their dives short of the planned exit, a third was rescued, and two lost their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the November 2007 monthly meeting, the Niagara Divers&#8217; Association (NDA), in conjunction with the Ontario Underwater Council (OUC), presented information on the Chippawa area.&nbsp; Attendee interest exceeded the room and seating capacity, and for this reason we have added a similar but shorter presentation at Shipwrecks\/2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation will provide a brief history of the area and Ontario Power Generation (OPG).&nbsp; It will explain how OPG&#8217;s operations affect the waterways, resulting potential hazards, and other site hazards (both man-made and naturally occurring).&nbsp; We will provide a description of the accident based on the most current facts available and finish with a list of recommendations for diving the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although this is not shipwreck related, we feel that we have an obligation to supply information on this dive site, located in the middle of our club&#8217;s base of operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chippawa Investigation Like the Niagara River, the Welland River (which flows through the Village of Chippawa), has been visited and dove by literally thousands of divers over the years.&nbsp; Although in almost every case this can be a very enjoyable dive, there are several areas and conditions in the rivers that can make diving extremely &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}