Photo Essay: Wreck Diving in the Great Lakes

Diving in a Midwest isnt as glamorous as diving in a tropics, but what a Great Lakes miss in coral reefs as well as colorful fish, they have up in fallen ships.

With nothing to break, rot, or eat divided during wrecks, a Great Lakes have been similar to a hulk open-water story museum, preserving fallen ships usually as they were when they went down. Many of a total 19th-century wrecks still left in a world lie sparse around a lakes, in boat graveyards similar to Thunder Bay as well as a Straits of Mackinac. Often, they lay in shallow sufficient H2O for even novice scuba divers to visit.

Conserving a wrecks continues to be a fight, opposite invasive wildlife as well as looters who frame ships of rigging as well as alternative artifacts. While no print will ever be means to communicate how it feels to swim down a rug of a century-old ship, I consider these pictures do a good job of conveying a ghost-ship beauty of mutilate diving in a Great Lakes.

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1. A NOAA archeologist hovers next to a circle of a FT Barney, sunk in Lake Huron in 1868. (Photo: Tane Casserley/NOAA)

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2. The crawl of a Barney. With no sea tedious worms or currents to mangle it apart, a mutilate has remained roughly totally total for a century as well as a half. (Photo: Tane Casserley/NOAA)

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3. The pier crawl as well as anchor of a schooner Cornelia B. Windiate in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Out of 12 NOAA-designated National Marine Sanctuaries, usually Thunder Bay lies in freshwater. (Photo: Steve Sellers/NOAA)

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4. Looking over a rug of a WL Wetmore in Canadas Fathom Five National Marine Park. (Photo: Joanna Suan)

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5. The crawl of a Wolfe Islander II, a automobile ferry scuttled in Lake Ontario. (Photo: Joanna Suan)

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6. Exploring a stairwell on a Islander. (Photo: Joanna Suan)

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7. Navigating deeper inside a wreck. (Photo: Tom Rutledge)

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8. The mutilate of a City of Sheboygan, a three-masted schooner which sank during a storm in 1915. (Photo: Tom Rutledge)

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9. A diver floats above a rug of a fallen ferry in Lake Ontario. With no solid currents, diving conditions in a Great Lakes depend largely on internal weather. (Photo: Tom Rutledge)

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10. Sitting in about 80 feet of H2O nearby a Straits of Mackinac, a Sandusky is one of a most-visited wrecks in a Great Lakes. A internal scuba bar recovered a ships strange figurehead as well as replaced it with a replica after discovering which thieves had tried to examine it off. (Photo: Michael Schout)

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11. Zebra mussels coat a railing of a Sandusky. The invasive bivalves have been among a usually fauna which degrade wrecks in a lakes. (Photo: Michael Schout)

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12. Archeologist Paul Lothary of a Wisconsin Historical Society peeks by a rug of a Finn McCool. The mutilate lies off of a Wisconsin coast in usually 20 feet of water. (Photo: Wisconsin Historical Society)

All photos except for 1, 2, as well as 3 their authors. All rights reserved.

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Learn about a shipwrecks of Lake Michigan with a Underwater Archeological Society of Chicago.


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