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During the summer of 2024, the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary installed moorings at 24 shipwreck sites in the sanctuary. The moorings were intended to facilitate diving and paddling , make diving safer, and protect shipwrecks in the sanctuary from damage by anchors.
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 Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is one of 15 marine sanctuaries in the country. Here's what to know. Wisconsin’s national marine sanctuary is a museum beneath the water.
The Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia stretches from Cape Otway to Port Fairy, a distance of approximately 130 km. This coastline is accessible via the Great Ocean Road, and is home to the limestone formations called The Twelve Apostles. Explorer Matthew Flinders said of the Shipwreck Coast, "I have seldom seen a more fearful section of ...
The sanctuary is 962 square miles with at least three dozen shipwrecks and spans four Wisconsin counties: Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Sheboygan and Ozaukee.
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 ...
From Maine, they stopped over in Annapolis, Maryland and left for the next leg when the boat was overtaken by unexpected heavy weather in the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina. The Trashman foundered in 40–50-foot (12–15-meter) seas and sank while the five crew members gathered on an 11-foot (3.4-meter) Zodiac life raft.
Wisconsin's shipwreck sanctuary installed 19 mooring lines with buoys that will make it easier for scuba divers to locate Lake Michigan shipwrecks.