Learn
the history of underwater exploration at the UW Sea
Grant Underwater Exploration featuring an illustrated
history timeline, diving hand signals and more.
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take you to another site)
Underwater
Archaeology at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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take you to another site)
Other Related Sites -- Shipwrecks
Great
Lakes Shipwreck Research Foundation (GLSRF).
Contains several shipwreck databases. GLSRF divers are
actively involved in documenting Wisconsin’s historic
shipwrecks. The GLSRF also sponsors of the annual Ghost
Ships Festival in Milwaukee, Wis.
Shipwrecks
of Thunder Bay, Lake Huron Includes
historical and underwater photographs, animations of the
burning of several ships, and a full list of wrecks indicating
vessel type, length, date lost, and cause of wreck.
Great
Lakes Shipwreck Museum Operated by the Great Lakes
Shipwreck Historical Society of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.,
which was founded in 1978 to preserve the lore and artifacts
of the Great Lakes. The museum features the bell of the
ill-fated laker, the Edmund Fitzgerald.
