Issue 37

Wreck Diving Magazine

Uncover the Past with Wreck Diving Magazine

Wreck Diving Magazine5 min read
WRECKommendations
Written by Stephen B. Daniel There is a reason that every issue of Wreck Diving Magazine has at least one article on Great Lakes wreck diving - because the Great Lakes are a wreck diver’s paradise! Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes and the la
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The Sole Survivor of the 1966 Daniel J. Morrell Shipwreck Dies
Dennis Hale, the lone survivor of one of the Great Lakes’ most deadly shipwrecks, died September 2, 2015, in Ashtabula, Ohio. Dennis was 75. On the very cold night of the 29th of November, facing gale force winds of 65+ miles per hour and 30-foot sea
Wreck Diving Magazine10 min read
Burdigala : Emerging from the Shadows
Burdigala To seasoned technical shipwreck divers, one only has to mention the destination of Greece to illicit an immediate query of “Britannic?” While H.M.H.S. Britannic undoubtedly is one of the most spectacular wreck dives in the world, another li
Wreck Diving Magazine12 min read
The Lady Is A TRAMP
Jeanne It often amazes me just how far technology in our diving equipment has evolved in recent years. Sometimes it makes me angry to think that during the true “heyday” of technical diving exploration, equipment we all now take for granted was not a
Wreck Diving Magazine14 min read
Lost & Found
USS San Diego June 20, 2015 - Carrying a small box, I walked up to the front door of Joan Russell Mikkelsen’s Berkeley, California, home. Joan, her brother, Benton Russell, and other members of the family were expecting me. Inside the box was a gold
Wreck Diving Magazine9 min read
Caught In The Vortex: The Armistice Day Blizzard Of 1940
Anna C. Minch, Novadoc, William B. Davock For Great Lakes sailors, the Sunday, November 10th weather forecast did not raise any concerns. The temperature had been unseasonably high in the Midwest. The storm that had begun four days earlier on the Wes
Wreck Diving Magazine13 min read
Ghost Fleet of the St. Clair River
Ghost Fleet On the very foggy, early morning of August 26, 1911, the huge, 301-foot (91-metre)-long wooden steamer named the City of Genoa sank, while at anchor, at the mouth of the St. Clair River between Port Huron, Michigan, and Sarnia, Ontario, w
Wreck Diving Magazine13 min read
D-Day In The Pacific
Peleliu I caught a soft hallelujah from my wife placing her seatback and tray-table in their full upright positions for the last time. Our flight marathon rolled to a stop on the island of Babelthuap, the largest in a chain of islands within the Pala
Wreck Diving Magazine8 min read
A Benevolent Son Returns – the USS Mississinewa Revisited
USS Mississinewa Bill Acker slowly descended the down line to 90’ with his dive buddy, Jim Gleason. Nothing unusual here except that the dive was in Ulithi Lagoon and was Jim’s first open water dive after completing his certification course in Yap th

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