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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.
Indigenous peoples used the waters of what is now the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary for trade, communication, and sustenance, for thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the area, and it is likely that they left artifacts behind on the bottom of Lake Michigan. [7]
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station 11 miles (18 km) north of Paradise in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The light station property was transferred to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS), the Michigan Audubon Society (MAS), and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1996.
In 2022, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration surveyed Lake Michigan with sonar inside the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary, an area known as the ...
Wisconsin's shipwreck sanctuary installed 19 mooring lines with buoys that will make it easier for scuba divers to locate Lake Michigan shipwrecks.
The 156-year-old shipwreck wasn't found until last July and is significant because it ... eight years before she sank off the Algoma coast in Lake Michigan. The Trinidad was bringing coal from ...
The first self-unloading bulk carrier; sprang a leak off the east coast of Lake Michigan. Henry Cort United States: 30 November 1934 A whaleback freighter that ran aground at Muskegon, Michigan. One Coast Guardsman killed. Home United States: 1858 A schooner that collided with the William Fiske off the coast of Centerville. Iris United States: 1913
A remotely operated vehicle helped scientists investigate the 40 newly discovered sinkholes at the bottom of Lake Michigan in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The camera ...