Destination.....Volund.

This morning, I was up before the sun scraping the ice from my windshield.  Soon, the charter boats in the area will stop running until the spring.  I was lucky to get in on one of the last trips of Atlantis Dive Charters. Today's destination was the Volund.
The SS Volund was a Norweigan Freighter built from iron and wood in 1899. It was constructed in Norway and used to transport plaster to Nova Scotia.
On September 26, 1908 it collided with the steamer Commonwealth and sank. Fortunately, no one was killed as a result of the accident.
The wreck of the Volund sits upright and mostly intact in Long Island Sound. The wreck is very dark and covered with a layer of easily disturbed debris. It is a long slow descent to the wreck and once you reach the bottom, a lot of the structure is covered in Northern coral polyps and sea stars. After a tour of the bow section, my dive buddy Pat ran his wreck reel to the stern.  Along the way we passed two anchors, the engines and the helm station. We then swam over the back of the wreck and dropped down on the rudder and propellers. The depth at that point of the dive is 107 feet. I was very fortunate to dive with someone so familiar with the site. It is hard to navigate a wreck site the first few times out, especially on a dive site that is so deep and dark.
I thoroughly enjoyed this dive today. It was a wonderful way to end the local wreck season. Now, on to Gloucester for scallops!!