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Madeira was a schooner barge that sank off the coast of Minnesota in Lake Superior on November 28, 1905. A schooner barge is a type of ship that functions like a barge, in that it is towed by a steamship, but also has sails like a schooner. This type of ship evolved from wooden sailing ships that were cut down into barges and towed behind ...
Since the 19th century, there have been several losses in both the Minnesota (north shore) and the Wisconsin (south shore) portion of western Lake Superior. Out of the known shipwrecks in the region, 25 of them are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] [2] [3] This list includes both shipwrecks in Lake Superior and the Saint ...
In 1994, 102 years after Vienna sank, an experienced male diver who was a member of the Chippewa County Sheriff's Department died while diving her wreck. [14] In 1995, an experienced male diver died of massive emboli after deeply penetrating the wreck, likely running out of air, and attempting an uncontrolled ascent without staged decompression ...
The 50-year-old man from Embarrass, Minn., who was a trained scuba diver, was helping a group of people pull the object out of Crane Lake when he went under the water just before 12:15 p.m. but ...
White Star Quarry in Gibsonburg is considered one of the top inland scuba diving spots in Northern Ohio, but it was struck by tragedy on Aug. 1 when a 63-year-old veteran diver died during what ...
Scuba diving fatalities are deaths occurring while scuba diving or as a consequence of scuba diving. The risks of dying during recreational , scientific or commercial diving are small, and on scuba , deaths are usually associated with poor gas management , poor buoyancy control , equipment misuse, entrapment, rough water conditions and pre ...
Disappeared on Lake Superior on 1 December 1908. Edmund Fitzgerald United States: 10 November 1975 Sunk in a storm on Lake Superior, Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the largest ships to have sunk in the Great Lakes. The exact cause of the disaster has never been made clear, and has been the subject of much discussion.
The death of a man who drowned while on a “bucket list” scuba diving trip could have been prevented if appropriate equipment checks had happened before he entered the water, a coroner concluded.