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The 410 mile-long Connecticut River is New England’s longest river. Its headwaters are at the Canadian border and it empties into Long Island Sound at Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Known to Native Americans as “Quenticut- the Long Tidal River”, it is one of America’s earliest developed rivers with European settlements stretching back over 350 years.

Dammed and dumped in for over the past 150 years, it was called at one time, the Nation’s “best landscaped sewer.” However, since the 1972 passing of the Federal Clean Water Act, it is now swimmable, fishable and in some areas drinkable.

Connecticut River diving is outstanding. In their NSF return engagement, Annette Spaulding and Patrick Madden hope to give you insight into the biodiversity, history and excitement of this historic river.