Good evening. My name is Marie‑Christine Lessard, and I'm the executive director of Québec Subaquatique.
Québec Subaquatique is a non-profit organization that helps divers dive safely in Quebec waters. Most of our work has to do with scuba diving regulations within Quebec, but we also have a diving base in Les Escoumins, where some 800 divers a year come to dive in the St. Lawrence. The Les Escoumins diving base is in a Parks Canada site, the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park. As such, we have lots of data about the health of that part of the St. Lawrence. We also have a large database that covers all possible dive sites in Quebec.
That said, we have about 199 sites in Quebec waters, 31 of which have shipwrecks or artificial reefs and some of which are in lakes. One of our largest wrecks is still the Empress of Ireland, which is in the St. Lawrence.
I'll turn things over to Mr. Drolet now.