Great Lakes Shipwrecks: Exploring Underwater Treasures

This program, presented by Dossin Great Lakes Museum staff, marks the kickoff of the 2011 Livingston Reads one-book-one-community reading series of events.

The very first ship on the upper Great Lakes, LaSalle’s Griffon, sailed only a single voyage before disappearing beneath the waves. Since then, several thousand vessels have met the same fate, along with their crews. Today, these underwater treasures offer recreational divers great opportunities for adventure. The wrecks also offer historians, archaeologists and scientists a trove of well-preserved time capsules to be studied and protected.

This presentation offers great photographs and underwater video that examine the world of those committed to the deep.