Toledo Magazine - Great Lakes shipwreck dives

10/9/2005
A diver takes a close look at the bell of the Sadie Thompson, a barge which sank in 116 feet of Lake Superior water near Whitefish Point in a storm in the early 1950's.
A diver takes a close look at the bell of the Sadie Thompson, a barge which sank in 116 feet of Lake Superior water near Whitefish Point in a storm in the early 1950's.

Shipwreck diving on the Great Lakes with Blade reporter Erica Blake and Blade photographer Andy Morrison from June through October. These large files will take a few minutes to load.

• Dive at the Comet, a paddlewheel which sank in a collision in Lake Ontario near Kingston on May 15, 1861 with the loss of three lives.

Comet 1

Comet 2

• Dive at the George A. Marsh, a three masted schooner which sank in a storm in Lake Ontario with reportedly 12 of 14 people aboard killed on August 8, 1917.

Marsh 1

Marsh 2

Marsh 3

Marsh 4

Marsh 5

Marsh 6

• Dive through the passage way of the Wolfe Islander II, a ferry boat in Kingston, Ontario which was sank as a dive attraction.

Wolfe 1

Wolfe 2

• Dive at the Sadie Thompson near Whitefish Point in Lake Superior.

Sadie 1

Sadie 2

• Dive at the Vienna near Whitefish Point in Lake Superior.

Vienna 1