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The silty substrate of the lake bed where the wreckage of the Checotah lies can get whipped up into a hazey, milky fog, making diving this wreck a fruitless effort. However, if the conditions are good and there is minimal current divers are rewarded with the remains of a ...
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N 43° 36.08' W 82° 28.16'
The Colonel A. B. Williams is the oldest wreck in the Sanilac Shores Preserve and is a great dive. She's an extremely photogenic pre-civil war wooden two-masted schooner that sits upright in depths easily reached by recreational divers and remains reasonably intact, still carrying her cargo of ...
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N 43° 36.470' W 82° 30.670'
The Eliza H. Strong lies in very shallow water, swarmed by largemouth bass and sunfish, near the entrance to Lexington Marina and in a fairly broken up state after being dynamited in 1909 to avoid presenting a navigational hazard.
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N 43° 15.709' W 82° 30.581'
The Mary Alice B. is a 65' steel tug boat that sank in 1975 whilst herself being towed. During the journey from Rockport to Detroit after completing a salvage operation, she began taking on water. Although efforts were made, they were to no avail and the crew eventually ...
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N 43° 22.34' W 82° 26.31'
The wreckage belongs to an old woodened steamer differing from many of the other ships in her desgin and means of propulsion. Descending the hundred and some feet down onto an enourmous boiler divers are always excited to see ...
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N 43° 36.23' W 82° 28.24'
Six identical sister ships were constructed between 1888 and 1889 by the Globe Iron Works company of Cleveland, Ohio: North Star, North Wind, Northern Light, Northern Queen, Northern King and Northern Wave. All were 300' steel propellor-driven package freighters.
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N 43° 23.954' W 82° 26.524'
The wreckage found at this site are the remains of a ship that in her day was considered one of the finest side-wheel passenger steamers on the Great Lakes. She was built in 1848 and was named after Buffalo, the second largest city in New York state and second largest ...
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N 43° 09.18' W 82° 25.77'
This 250' Scottish-built steel package freighter was one of several vessels that sank in the infamous Great Lakes Storm of 1913. When the Regina was located in 1986, she was found resting upside down in 75' of water with a large gash down her port side...
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N 43° 20.434' W 82° 26.878'
The Sport is a testament to how quickly the weather in this area can turn for the worst. Departing in reasonable conditions in the winter of 1920 the crew of the first ever steel tug on the Great Lakes suddenly found themselves in the midst of a gale...
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N 43° 15.98' W 82° 27.93'
