Great Lakes Shipwreck Diving
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State Law: No Person shall recover, alter, or destroy abandoned property which is in, on, under, or over the bottomlands of the Great Lakes, unless the person has a permit issued jointly by the Secretary Of State and the Department of Natural Resources.
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Sports Dive (up to 60 feet)
Forester Pier located 5 miles north of Port Sanilac. depth 0-15 feet, a beach dive.
Berlin at Burnt Cabin Point, depth 10 feet. Loran 30869.2 49170.7
Jacob Bertschy, depth 10 feet. GPS N 44.03.42 W 82.53.13 Loran 30862.8 49181.4 Sank in November 1877
Charles Street, depth 10 feet. GPS N 43.35.49 W 82.35.34 Loran 30818.2 49413.1
Anchor (at Port Austin reef), depth 15 feet. Halfway from pier to the lighthouse. Loran 30904.4 49172.2
Marquis-Schooner depth 15 ft. Loran 30795.0/ 49266.4, sank 1892, broken up.
Eliza Strong depth 28 ft. sunk 1904, GPS N 43.15.50 w 82.30.44 Loran 30847.0 49570.6
Anchor - Kinch Road. depth 30 feet. GPS N 44.04.387 w 82.49.330
Chickamagqua, depth 32 feet GPS N 43.50.950 W 82.37.430 Loran 30788.0 49294.0
City of Port Huron, depth 35 feet. GPS N 43.13.404 W 82.29.059
Sport, depth 48 feet. GPS N 43.15.76 W 82.27.78 Loran 30824.9 49569.8
F.B. Gardner, depth 55 feet. GPS N 43.31.41 W 82.31.56 Loran 30802.5 49446.8
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Advanced Divers Only (60 to 130 feet)
Dump Barge/Scow, depth 77 feet. GPS N 44.07.400 W 82.51.275 Loran 30836.7 49150.8
Regina depth 78 ft. sunk 1913, lies upside down, GPS N 43.20.23 W 82.26.73 Loran 30801.5 49535.0
23. Col. A.B. WIlliams depth 84 ft. sunk 1864 GPS N 43.36.50 W 82.30.65 Loran 30799.1 49407.4
Mary Alice B, depth 94 feet. GPS N 43.22.12 W 82.26.17 Loran 30790.8 49520.5
Troy, depth 96 to 98 feet. GPS N 44.08.654 W. 83.01.49 Loran 30909.0 49131.6
North Star, depth 98 feet. GPS N 43.23.74 W 82.26.37 Loran 30787.0 49508.1
Goliath (propeller) depth 104 ft. 131 ft. long, sunk 1848, cargo bricks, and gun powder. GPS N 43.47.008 W 82.32.721 Loran 30761.8 49326.5
Checotah, depth 120 ft. sunk 1906, GPS N 43.35.87 W 82.28.03 Loran 30761.3 49413.5
Glenorchy (propeller) depth 120 ft. length 356 ft. collided with the Leonard B. Miller in 1924, lies upside down. GPS N43.48.39 W 82.31.68 Loran 30750.4 49314.2
New York, depth 125 ft. sunk 1876, GPS N 43.36.06 W 82.28.03 Loran C 30761.2/49412.2
Philadelphia (propeller) depth 125 ft., length 236 feet, collided with the Albany in 1893, GPS N 44.04.121 W 82.42.993 Loran 30786.2 49183.7
Arctic, depth 130 feet. GPS N 43.41.462 W 82.28.712 Loran 30748.4 49371.4
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Technical (over 130 feet)
Iron Chief (propeller) depth 134 ft. length 212 ft. sunk 1904, GPS N 44.05.596 W 82.42.538 Loran 30777.9 49172.0
Santiago, depth 135 feet. GPS N 44.10.631 W 82.54.907
Albany (propeller) depth 145 ft. length 267 ft. collided with the Philadelphia in 1893. GPS N 44.06.350 W 82.42.015 Loran 30773.1 49166.8
Hunter Savidge, depth 150 feet. GPS N 44.06.53 W 82.35.057
mystery schooner, depth 150 feet. GPS N 44.05.473 W 82.39.018
Dunderburg (schooner) depth 155 ft. length 186 ft. sunk 1868, GPS N 43.55.641 W 82.33.391 Loran 30740.9 49257.5
E. P. Door(tug) depth 175 ft. 120 ft. long, GPS N 44.08.791 W. 82.43.959 Loran 30780.0 49145.5
City of Detroit, depth 176 feet. GPS N 44.12.473 W 83.00.840 Loran 30889.5 49101.3
Governor Smith (propeller) depth 180 to 200ft. 240 ft. long, sunk 1906. Upright but broken. GPS N 44.09.330 W 82.42.00 Loran 30763.3 49141.3
Emma Neilson, depth 190 feet. GPS N 44.10.887 W 82.42.613
John McGean, depth 195. GPS N 43.57.196 W 82.31.717 Loran 30723.6 49245.8
Daniel J. Morell (propeller) 356 ft. long, split in half in 1966 storm, after bow sank, stern traveled 5 additional miles.
Bow depth 200 ft. GPS N 44.18.090 W 82.45.120 Loran 30761.6 49068.0
Stern depth 218 ft. GPS N 44.15.480 W 82.50.094 Loran 30803.7 49086.3
Detroit, depth 200 feet. GPS N 44.13.612 W 82.45.437 Loran 30776.4 49105.5
Fred Lee, depth 200 feet. GPS N 44.12.423 W 82.45.560 Loran 30780.7 49114.7
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