The village sits on the shore of Lake Erie in Chatham-Kent. The great lake is a magnet for shipwrecks — it has more than 270 confirmed shipwrecks, and possibly thousands more hidden in its depths.
Lake Michigan accounted for 26.5% of all shipwrecks, closely followed by Lake Huron at 26.1% and Lake Erie at 23.8%. Lake Ontario saw 12%, while Lake Superior had 11.5%. Storms may not whip up the ...
The society says that there have been 500 to 600 shipwrecks in Lake Superior since the 1850s ... in the Canadian province of Ontario, under the command of Captain Frederick Burke.
Even its name is lake-derived from the eponymous Lake Ontario, an adaptation of a word ... where two dozen shipwrecks pique curiosity for the SCUBA-certified. For the uninitiated, those same ...
A sonar image of one of the shipwrecks discovered in 2015 Two shipwrecks ... the West Ridge (lost in 1883), Kooringa (1894) or Lake Ontario (1897). The West Ridge, which vanished along with ...
Lake Michigan accounted for 26.5% of all shipwrecks, closely followed by Lake Huron at 26.1% and Lake Erie at 23.8%. Lake Ontario saw 12%, while Lake Superior had 11.5%. Few storms haunt the ...