Exploring the Halifax Harbour with diving legend & mentor Bob Chaulk!

I've known Bob Chaulk since I was a kid. He would take my Dad out on dives in the harbour and I was always fascinated by the stories he's shared. In the last year, Bob & I reconnected after I found a bottle that I thought he'd like - my John Nash blob top. This past weekend, an opportunity presented itself to accompany Bob on a dive for a project he's working on and he asked if I'd like to tag along. I can't reveal yet what he was doing but I did include some footage from him on the ocean floor.
Stick around for the end of the video. Bob goes through my finds from this dive and gives some background history of them. I even found one he didn't have!
As well, Bob just wrote a brand new book that I think anyone, especially history lovers, treasure hunters and those with a sense of adventure, will find interesting. It's called The Race to the Bottom. I've included a summary below:
This is the story of one man''s hobby and its overwhelmingly positive effect physically, emotionally, socially, and mentally on his life. The hobby is scuba diving, but not on the reefs of southern seas. This is about diving in Halifax Harbour. Diving summer and winter in one of the biggest and deepest harbours in the world has given Bob a view of history that few will ever witness.
Inquisitive and energetic, the author spins yarns about the strange and fascinating objects he finds and the hair-raising moments he has experienced, from coming to the surface and seeing the boat drifting out of sight to arriving on the surface in a snowstorm and having to navigate by compass to find the shore.
The bottom of Halifax Harbour has collected artifacts over the centuries from around the world. Each find gets picked up, cleaned, researched, and documented. The author''s database is a gold mine of little details about what arrived, eventually got dumped into the ocean, and is now sitting on display at home and in museums as a reminder of what once was.
The author takes the reader under warships, container ships, and tugboats, through huge docks, and under the ice. Along the way, he reflects on the toll that our civilization is taking on the ocean, of seagulls trying to break open golf balls to find food, of crabs trapped inside tires, and fish that take refuge in castoff bottles and grow too big to stay in but also too big to get out.
You can order it here: nimbus.ca/store/the-race-to-t...
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. We've already made plans to go out again and I can't wait!

[@Travelling..Bottle..Digger]

fun fun !

[@SaltwaterSean]

Yep yep!

[@Adventurous4Life]

Fun dive! That broken milk would make a lovely glass if you cut it!! Nice embossing to it!

[@SaltwaterSean]

I was actually thinking that - how does one cut glass??

[@Adventurous4Life]

@@SaltwaterSean th-cam.com/video/juQ-YxewN3g/w-d-xo.html skip through this video I made! Shows some equipment I use!

[@SaltwaterSean]

@@Adventurous4Life Thanks!

[@devonroberts832]

Love all your videos bud. Thanks for introducing me to this type of hobby . Got in touch with torpedo rays I told them it was because of your shout out to torpedo rays in a recent video took my first dive in a 7 mm wetsuit today I loved it could have stayed in all day. Thanks for introducing me to this it's amazing

[@SaltwaterSean]

That's awesome!!

[@TheCoffeeBushKid]

Good video. It was cool to get some history on the bottles you found. Good luck on finding an amber milk bottle. 😁🦘🦘👍

[@SaltwaterSean]

Thanks I appreciate that. Bob has an extensive wealth of knowledge

[@RandolphRelicRecovery]

Cool beans😎👍

[@SaltwaterSean]

Thanks!

[@RuthMcMullen]

I love Bob! Oh this is awesome.

[@SaltwaterSean]

Oh me too!

[@dawnthemetaldetective3083]

Very cool!

[@SaltwaterSean]

Thank you Dawn!

[@underthesurface4435]

Great footage!

[@SaltwaterSean]

Thank you very much!

[@D.Smagnetfishing]

very nice find

[@SaltwaterSean]

Thank you!

[@jsteelsadventureandvariety4545]

Nice finds, and really enjoyed the history on the bottles🙂

[@SaltwaterSean]

Hey thanks! I do too :)

[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

Now that was an interesting dive!💖

[@SaltwaterSean]

I think so too!

[@leannkennedy6568]

Awesome video!

[@SaltwaterSean]

Glad you enjoyed it Leann!

[@pacediver2594]

Very cool ,looks like you still have luck finding old glass. There’s a wealth of knowledge diving with you,

[@SaltwaterSean]

Thank you! Yes, my luck seems to keep me going

[@StephenandYhana]

That was a great video and I loved the history behind the bottles too. Very cool

[@SaltwaterSean]

Hey Stephen & Yhana - thank you very much!

[@mattmcmullen689]

Nice! Cool to know the history of those bottles!

[@SaltwaterSean]

Thanks Matt!

[@JeremySmithOfNewScotland]

Halifax harbor 😬, I can only imagine what you might find in there. Super cool video tho and Bob seems like a chill dude, he seems very knowledgeable about the bottles. The milk bottles are interesting, wonder if we’ll ever ditch bagged milk and go back 😆.
FYI I just created a Facebook group to promote east coast content , TH-cam videos Facebook videos artwork produced about the east coast. I can send you a link of you’re interested, I just created it today and I’m first reaching out to my east coast TH-cam friends before I start inviting my whole friends list. Let me know if you want in to join and post your videos and I’ll get you the link, however you want.

[@SaltwaterSean]

Don’t know how I missed this comment! Yea I’m interested in that group!

[@tagteamrecoveries]

Very nice and well done thanks for sharing :) ATB

[@SaltwaterSean]

Thank you kindly!

[@debbie991]

Now I want to scuba lol

[@SaltwaterSean]

Being in the water is so worth it, whatever way you choose

[@willie9397]

Those tires though, the car rusted away? lol

[@SaltwaterSean]

Must have! Or they were tossed in

[@JacobOSRS]

do you ever see any fish down there?

[@SaltwaterSean]

From time to time yep!