Shipwreck

[Rugburn]

   http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/explorers-find-2nd-oldest-confirmed-shipwreck-in-great-lakes/ar-BBvIPxU?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCDHP


200 year old shipwreck off of Oswego.

[Rugburn]

 Not sure how to make that link clickable..........help

[Raquettedacker]

Works now.. 

Pretty cool..

[hunts2long]

Thanks for sharing....h2l

[boondox]

If you like ship wrecks Google them and ask Google  for:  videos of st clair river and detroit river..  those are diveable to go see by the way same with the Edmund Fitzgerald I think you got to use that mixed oxygen/ nitrogen mix  I think they call it nitrox gas to dive it cause it so deep and a thicker suit cause it is so cold .. but very cool video none the less..

[hinkydo]

Unreal, but true.


                                 hinkydo

[camet5]

Very cool. Thanks for the link.

[UglyStik]

I saw the article on Syracuse.com, amazing how well preserved the front half is. The stern, not so much.

Lots more out there waiting to be discovered, staggering the number of lost ones. Here is a list from wikipedia, not sure how accurate it is, but look at how many in Ontario have no coordinates. These are all lost?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_Great_Lakes

Somebody made a map of the known ones for you adventurers, arrrrgggh!

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1IP_7nZhrYOaGb_7WT87K40avCks&hl=en_US

One of the great mysteries is what happened to the WW2 B24 bomber, Getaway Gertie, that went down near Oswego, or at least the south eastern basin somewhere.

http://oswegocountytoday.com/gertie%E2%80%99s-resting-place-remains-a-mystery

[trapper2000]

you can't just dive on just any ship wreck,  many  such as the Edmund Fitzgerald are considered watery graves and a fine of up to a million dollars can be imposed

[boondox]

you can't just dive on just any ship wreck,  many  such as the Edmund Fitzgerald are considered watery graves and a fine of up to a million dollars can be imposed

That would be correct .. on the fine you missed the imprisonment part.. but there are a few wrecks you can dive.. nitrox is not that common to use when diving regular depths if using nitrox it mainly navy etc dives and barely any body has licences to do so.. for depths that Deep mostly navy divers /salvage divers .. which in 1995 was the last and I think one of the few aloud on the Fitz to retrieve the bell for a land moment  for the family's of those lost at sea.. if they go threw proper channels threw the Canadian government they can get permits to dive it but it not a commonly aloud practice... cause it is considered a grave site... like said..

[filetandrelease]

Very cool thanks

[UglyStik]

With all the advancements in fishfinders maybe someone will get a good peek at one as they pass over.

[trapper2000]

pretty interesting thread here

[rgfixit]

The guys who discovered it were on our local news last evening. 3 old farts who got together and bought an ROV to play with. They take their boat and toys out on the lake, set the auto pilot, kick their feet up and watch the bottom go by.

Pretty cool past time.

Rg

[Rugburn]

I might just have a down rigger ball snagged on that wreck.......   And no I'm not going down looking for it either.