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The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
The Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Ontario off the coast of the U.S. state of New York.It protects 41 known historically significant shipwrecks spanning 200 years of American maritime history, as well as 19 potential shipwreck sites.
Professional divers, when diving on a shipwreck, generally refer to the specific task, such as salvage work, accident investigation or archaeological survey. Although most wreck dive sites are at shipwrecks, there is an increasing trend to scuttle retired ships to create artificial reef sites.
Explosives detonating to sink the former HMNZS Wellington in 2005. Sinking ships for wreck diving sites is the practice of scuttling old ships to produce artificial reefs suitable for wreck diving, to benefit from commercial revenues from recreational diving of the shipwreck, or to produce a diver training site.
Twenty-six barges broke loose in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania going down stream sinking an unknown number of small boats at Peggy's Harbor marina. One barge sank near Dashields Locks and Dam. [50] [51] Unknown vessel unknown A vessel, carrying migrants, capsized and sank off Djibouti. At least 16 children and 27 adults were ...
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Burned on April 13, 1915 near Two Harbors, Minnesota. [65] Rebel: Wooden tug 1871 1898 Sank on October 25, 1898 near Knife River, Minnesota. [66] Sarah Smith: Wooden tug 1883 1908 Burned on August 18, 1908 near Duluth, Minnesota due to an overheated boiler. [67] Search Light: Wooden steamer 1884 1916 Abandoned in 1916 near Duluth, Minnesota ...
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