Nautical Archaeology: Workshop for Divers
- Sponsored by the Peachman Lake Erie Shipwreck Research Center & The
Great Lakes Historical Society
Location: Inland Seas Maritime Museum, 480 Main Street, Vermilion, OH
Seminar Dates and Topics
Dec. 6:
- 10:00- 11:30 "Shipwreck Exploration: The Thunder Bay Model" with
Joyce Hayward
12:00- 1:30 "19th Century Lake Erie Vessel" with John Burke and Andy
Sykora
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- Dec. 13:
- 10:00- 11:30 "Researching and Publishing About Lake Erie
Shipwrecks" with Mike & Georgann Wachter
12:00- 1:30 "Researching National Archive Records for Lake Erie
Shipwrecks" Speaker TBA
Dec. 20:- 10:00- 11:30 "Use of Side Scan Sonar Imaging to Find Lake Erie
Shipwrecks" with Greg Millinger
12:00- 1:30 "Lake Erie's Underwater Preserve Concept: A 'Pipe Dream' or
a Potential Reality" with Dave Kelch
Costs: $30 for entire seminar series, including lunches; $15 per single
Saturday; Limited to 25 participants per session
Info & Registration: Erika Washburn, 1-800-893-1485 or
shipwreck@inlandseas.org
As noted, each seminar is limited to 25. If you would like to attend,
quickly contact Erika to reserve your spot before it fills up. This is being
advertised in a Canadian dive magazine, the Shipwreck and Scuba presentation
by Bay Area Divers and elsewhere's, so it will fill up fast. Hint, hint,
nudge, nudge, say no more!
As a side note, participants are encouraged to join MAST, the Maritime
Archaeology Survey Team to put there skills to work. As many of you know,
MAST has already surveyed the Adventure, the W. R. Hanna and the F. H.
Prince. Based on these surveys, plague cards were printed up that describes
the vessel in detail, cause of the wrecking and a site plan of how the wreck
looks today. The cards can be purchased, as a set, at the Inland Seas Museum
for $15.
If you are not a member of MAST, attending at least some of these December
seminars will help you understand what it takes to research and survey a
shipwreck. In late April or early May of 2004, a two day seminar and "in the
water" practice session will be given on the techniques of underwater
mapping. Tentatively, MAST will survey the Craftsman barge and crane in May
and/or June of 2004. Other shipwrecks that are on the short list to survey
are the Dundee, the Stephen F. Gayle, the Sarah E. Sheldon, the Queen of the
West, the Two Fannies and the City of Concord. To be a diver on the survey
team, you must complete the underwater mapping seminar and practice session.
It should be noted that the underwater mapping seminar and practice session
are not included in the December seminar series. |
