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This Saturday (tomorrow) from 1:00pm - 7:00pm The Sloan Museum and Longway Planetarium is having a shipwreck show. Presenters include Dave Trotter and Chris Kohl for sure.
The $17 entrance fee get you a light lunch at 3:00pm and dinner at 7:00pm
Form more info contact Heidi Wing (810) 237-3401
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“I CAN NOT STATE TOO OFTEN THAT THE GREAT LAKES POSSESS THE GREATEST SHIPWRECKS IN THE WORLD.”
Well the weather was not the most friendly but we made the drive from Alpena to the show in two hours and fifty five minutes. Joe, Karen and I picked Daryl up in East Tawas on our way through. It only took us a few minutes to get the Thunder Bay Underwater Preserve display set up. The format of the event kept us traveling between two separate facilities. The Longway Planetarium and the Sloan museum.
The first presentation was Icebound Found! The ordeal of the SS Michigan presented by Valarie VanHeest. It was a very nice presentation telling the story of how the Michigan became stuck in the ice and how Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates found it with the help of Dave Trotter.
Chris Kohl and Joan Forsberg presented “Shipwreck Tales of the Great Lakes”. This presentation was very educational with the telling of many historic wrecks throughout the great lakes. Two wrecks were raised and placed on shore for display and they both ended up in landfills. The story of the famed convict ship “Success” that ended up being a wreck of the Great Lakes.
Ric Mixter was there with several presentations. One was Cutter Rescue, where he followed the history of several Coast Guard cutters with ties to the Great Lakes. The other was on Great Lakes treasure hunting, which included the Poverty Island story.
And of course Dave Trotter who presented at two sessions where he sung the praises of other fellow Great Lakes Treasure Hunters and covered a myriad of his discoveries including the biplanes that his team found in Lake Huron off Oscoda. He also revealed for the first time the name of a Schooner that he discovered this last summer South East of Alpena. He believes it to be the John Rice but more research is necessary to confirm it.
One interesting bit of information came from a little elderly gentleman that was in attendance. He had served as third mate on the Edmond Fitzgerald prior to its sinking. He has a book that is currently being printed that is contradictory to the recent popular explanation to the boats sinking. I am sworn to secrecy so you all will have to wait for the book. I would love to hear reviews from any welders or metallurgist as to their opinions of his book.
The museum did a wonderful job in putting this event together. They were the perfect host in keeping everyone informed of the schedule and kept attendees well fed with drinks and snacks along with a catered dinner! A whole day for only $17 admission.
Unfortunately, don’t look for another one of these events next year. This day was put on to coincide with a traveling exhibit on “Treasures”. This weekend was on under water treasures. In two weeks it will be on metal detecting and rock hounding. Then it will be a type of antiques road show event.
After a long day and a lot of miles, we made it back to Alpena by 10:30 pm. A day well spent!!!
wait till you see the pictures of the Manta Ray, AWESOME! I'm going to do 3 Wreck dives this Sunday, all the dives so far have been from shore haven't been disappointed yet did 7 dives this past weekend. Hope to recover from the blisters on my feet before next weekend.
So far my dives include:
Gab Gab Beach = 2 dives
Gun Beach = 4 dives
Shark Pit =1 dive
Boulder Alley =1 dive
Unknown Bay near Boulder Alley =1 dive
Dives this weekend Cormoran & Tokai Maru for one tank, then the American Tanker for the second tank.
hopefully the is gone when I get back.
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What to do in Alpena? Dive, Dive, Dive and occasionally go fishing.
Sounds like you're enjoying your trip this time. We'll have to compare pictures when we get back home. My dives this past weekend off Moucha Island had lionfish, morays, blue spotted stingrays, and a huge Napoleon wrasse. I liked the 84 degree water too.
It's going to be hard getting used to Lake Huron again.
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And there are Bold Divers
But there are No Old Bold Divers
Ouch!
Mike your hurting me!
It looks like threats do work. :-)
Now I will have to go for another dive at RockPort to numb the pain and check up on our Beaver.
Maybe we can have you do a show & tell for a group...the I have a booth at the Sports Show this March and they are looking for anyone willing to talk about their favorite sport. If not maybe I could get you to man my booth while I show videos.
Joe
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“I CAN NOT STATE TOO OFTEN THAT THE GREAT LAKES POSSESS THE GREATEST SHIPWRECKS IN THE WORLD.”
One interesting bit of information came from a little elderly gentleman that was in attendance. He had served as third mate on the Edmond Fitzgerald prior to its sinking. He has a book that is currently being printed that is contradictory to the recent popular explanation to the boats sinking. I am sworn to secrecy so you all will have to wait for the book. I would love to hear reviews from any welders or metallurgist as to their opinions of his book.
You don't mean story about the results of the Fitz's last 5-year inspection that found cracks in way of the hatch end beams, eh?
They supposedly had a waiver to finish out the season before repairs were made, not an uncommon occurrence.
Pat LaBadie touched on the new theorys in his Fitzgerald presentation last November. Something about how the bottom of the ships center was attached to the stern but the top half was still attached to the bow. It would indeed be strange for a ship to crack longitudinally instead of vertically (dam where a spell checked when you need one). It would have had to snap many frames.
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