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  2. Madeira (ship) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Trained scuba diver drowns in Crane Lake in northern ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  4. Scuba diving fatalities - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of shipwrecks of western Lake Superior - Wikipedia

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    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.

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    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 ...

  7. List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. 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.

  9. Mayflower (scow-schooner) - Wikipedia

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    The Mayflower was a wooden hulled scow-schooner that sank on June 2, 1891, in Lake Superior near Duluth, Minnesota, United States, after capsizing with a load of sandstone blocks. In 2012 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places .