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Many of these ships were never found, so the exact number of shipwrecks in the Lakes is unknown; the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum estimates 6,000 ships and 30,000 lives lost, [1] while historian and mariner Mark Thompson has estimated that the total number of wrecks is likely more than 25,000. [2]
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Robert H Pritchett III, Global Marine Exploration Inc. Discovered 37 historical shipwrecks in the Dominican Republic and 5 shipwrecks of Cape Canaveral. Including the famous shipwreck of 1565 Trinite that was on a resupply mission. Ex Cave diver trainer and mix gas to 400 feet, has 62 books/reports authored. John Chatterton (b. 1951, American).
By one estimate, there are 6,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, 550 in Lake Superior alone, including the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975 and is immortalized in a folk song by Gordon Lightfoot.
One of the largest wooden ships ever built, she mostly carried iron ore east on the Great Lakes and returned with coal. Ran aground in a fog bank in November 1905. [68] Part of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS; boundary enlarged November 16, 2015. 6: Arctic Shipwreck (tug) Arctic Shipwreck (tug) June 22, 2018
The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Now, an invasive mussel is destroying shipwrecks deep in the depths ...
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
A World War II-era steamship that sank along with its captain in a strong storm in 1940 has been found at the bottom of Lake Superior after a 10-year search.