http://www.boatnerd.com/swayze/shipwreck/
And here they are. The Great Lakes does not have salt water, or coral to destroy the wrecks, so many are intact at the bottom. They even say that sailing ship sails are still in tact. They Edmond Fitzgerald even has a person in a life jacket preserved on the deck. But cold , deep ,moving water makes diving risky. Some have a visibility problem too. But still, more than 3000.
I noticed a lot of ships with duplicate names or very similar names, I thought sailors were a superstitious bunch, I would think it would be seen as bad luck to name your ship after one that sunk.
I tried to use the search-able database, but it wasn’t working. A shame, because I wanted to see if it listed any wrecks on our island.
Works for me, What island?
You can see the remains of this Civil War gunboat while kayaking near my place.
This has worked out very well for aviation buffs. During World War II, the US navy operated two aircraft carriers out of Chicago , the USS Sable and the USS Wolverine for training purposes. Some aircraft ended up at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Decades later they have been brought up and restored for various musuems and some have flown again.
I read a book about Great Lakes shipwrecks a few years ago. Apparently at one point some nutter proposed draining Lake Michigan just to be able to salvage all the wrecked ships.
I don’t think one can count high enough to list all the things wrong with that idea.
Don’t want to hijack the thread, but what I REALLY want to see is more exploration of the Black Sea. Supposedly there are 10’s or even 100’s of thousands of ships there, throughout much of human history (plus the possibility of proto-civilizations or settlements from before the flooding of the Black Sea at the end of the last ice age), much of which might be nearly perfectly preserved below a couple of hundred feet due to the unique conditions there. Possibly even the crews of some of those ships might be preserved completely intact from what I’ve read. Now THAT would really be something!
Anyway, sorry if it’s a hijack. As for the OP, I would love to see some serious exploration of the Great Lakes wrecks, which can also have ships in nearly pristine states of preservation.
-XT