A 292-foot Whaleback ship, Barge 129, was found in Lake Superior 120 years after a storm sank it, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society said.
DETROIT — More than 100 years after a storm sank a 292-foot Whaleback ship, it has beenThe Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society discovered the Whaleback vessel, Barge 129, 35 miles off Vermilion Point under 650 feet of water using side scan SONAR technology, the society
. The society's first SONAR image was in 2021, and it was able to identify the vessel in August 2022 using an underwater drone.In 1902, the vessel was transporting a load of iron ore with another steamer, the Maunaloa, in tow, when a storm struck, according to the historical society. The raging storm caused the towline connecting the ships to snap, leaving them at the mercy of Mother Nature.
“I’ve looked for this ship for so long because it was a Whaleback. I was pretty excited. I couldn't wait to get the cameras on it," said the society's director of marine operations, Darryl Ertel Jr., in Thursday's announcement."It's totally destroyed on the bottom. It's nowhere near intact. It's at least four to five big pieces and thousands of little pieces. It's just disintegrated.
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