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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 Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Ontario off the coast of the U.S. state of New York.It protects 41 known historically significant shipwrecks spanning 200 years of American maritime history, as well as 19 potential shipwreck sites.
Closest shipwreck to the mouth of the Buffalo River: Narragansett: 11 June 1880 A passenger paddle steamer of the Stonington Line that burned and sank on 11 June 1880, after a collision with her sister ship Stonington in heavy fog at 23:30 in Long Island Sound. Approximately 50 passengers, but only one crewman, died. Nisbet Grammer United Kingdom
Video "SS American Star - Stranded on Fuerteventura in 1994" (TVE Canarias video 1994) on YouTube; Video "SS American Star - Exploring the Wreck" (June 1999) on YouTube; Documentary Das Wrack der AMERICA (1999, in German) on YouTube; Video "Fuerte Ventura, SS American Star" on YouTube
"Lost on the turn of the Cape of Good Hope". YouTube Live presentation by archaeologist Professor Judith Sealy about the isotopic research on the unworked elephant tusks recovered from the Bom Jesus shipwreck. or ArchSoc WC, 9 February 2021, Judith Sealy, “Lost on the turn of the Cape of Good Hope"
Indigenous peoples used the waters of what is now the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary for trade, communication, and sustenance, for thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the area, and it is likely that they left artifacts behind on the bottom of Lake Michigan. [7]
Over 200 wrecks are in the area of Whitefish Point of the 550 wrecks in Lake Superior. For a distance west of Whitefish Bay, there are no natural harbors in which ships can "ride out" storms. [5] Also, as late as the 20th century, weather prediction was "a haphazard process, very imprecise and unreliable."
Diving With a Purpose was founded in 2005 by Kenneth Stewart (born 1944/45), [5] a retired copier repairman [6] with the Tennessee Aquatic Project and the National Association of Black Scuba Divers, and Brenda Lanzendorf (1958–2008), [7] a maritime archaeologist at Biscayne National Park. [2]