C-GBPW
I was pleased to come across a site today about the planned sinking of an old Canadian Airlines 737 as an artificial reef on the Canadian West Coast. I’d actually heard about the project last year but had totally forgotten about it until now (thanks Trevor).
I’ve done a bunch of dive trips to the coast in the past few years and have already checked out pretty much all the wrecks that Artificial Reef Society has sunk there. I actually try to do at least one dive trip to the coast per year as I haven’t dove them nearly enough. And unless you are diving them every day, it’s hard to get bored or tired of diving the wrecks, even if you have done them before.
The neat thing that this 737-200 will offer divers is that in Western Canada, pretty much anyone who has flown in the past 30 years has flown on a 737-200. The 737-200 was flown by Pacific Western Airlines (which became Canadian Airlines Internation) back in the day, and now WestJet, CanJet and Air Canada (as Tango and Zip) still fly the 200 series. So when you dive down to C-GBPW’s final resting spot you will be able to say ”I’ve flown on one of these before,” which is rare occurance when diving ship wrecks.
And what’s really cool is that I’m pretty sure that I’ve already been inside this particular 737-200. I don’t remember it specifically, but when I was a baggage handler for Canadian Airlines International in high school I crawled around inside the cargo holds of pretty much all of Canadian Airlines’ fleet. And if your luggage got lost or damaged, I swear it was nothing to do with me. Seriously.
Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:23 Posted in Flying
