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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 ...
On December 6, 1924 the Thomas Friant left Port Wing, Wisconsin to go gillnetting in the middle of Lake Superior. After seeking shelter in Squaw Bay for the night, she froze in. In the morning she broke free, but the ice cut her hull. She then tried to reach the north shore of the lake, because the south shore was completely frozen over.
Diving fatality data published in Diving Medicine for Scuba Divers (2015) [3] 90% died with their weight belt on. 86% were alone when they died (either diving solo or separated from their buddy). 50% did not inflate their buoyancy compensator. 25% first got into difficulty on the surface; 50% died on the surface. 10% were under training when ...
A man trying to recover a piece of sunken machinery from a northern Minnesota lake drowned Sunday, the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office said. The 50-year-old man from Embarrass, Minn., who was a ...
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On 1 November 2020, PADI Open Water Diver Linnea Rose Mills [1] drowned during a training dive in Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, while using an unfamiliar and defective equipment configuration, with excessive weights, no functional dry suit inflation mechanism, and a buoyancy compensator too small to support the weights, which were not configured to be ditched in an emergency.
The 45-year-old man was previously presumed to have drowned after his capsized vessel was found in Green Lake in August. Green Lake County Sheriff's Office confirmed last month that they'd ...
SS Kamloops was a Canadian lake freighter that was part of the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines from its launching in 1924 until it sank with all hands in Lake Superior off Isle Royale, Michigan, United States, on or about 7 December 1927.