http://cbsdetroit.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/lake-michigan-istock.jpg?w=300 Lake Michigan (istockphoto)
Posted on 12/27/2011 8:56:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Tests performed at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan have provided enough evidence for researchers to recommend an excavation of the site of a shipwreck to determine if it's the Griffin, a French vessel that was loaded with furs when it sank in 1679, the project's lead investigator said Monday.
Sonar scans of the lake bottom and profiling below it showed a mass consistent with other images of a buried ship hull, said Ken Vrana, director of the Laingsburg-based Center for Maritime and Underwater Resource Management.
"The consensus among the professionals ... who have reviewed the data so far is that this site does warrant a test excavation," said Vrana, whose private, nonprofit started as a research and outreach unit of Michigan State University.
"We're very optimistic that we have located an old vessel -- an old, sunken vessel. But the real clincher -- is this the Griffin? -- we don't know yet," he said. The Griffin was built and commanded by the explorer Rene-Robert Sieur de La Salle on behalf of King Louis XIV.
The next step would be to seek a state permit for the excavation.
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Well, my apologies, I really arfed up this one — no source name, ugly character in the title, mistaken string in the photo caption, what else...
Since it's not floating, it's a safe bet that it's sunken.
It's a suspected french ship loaded with furs? That's gotta smell bad, even 300 years later.
No worries on the links, real men only scan the headline, and don't bother with links or articles.
/johnny
All the best to you in this New Year, SC.
No worries! That picture does look like water and I think I can see a bit of the ship there on the shore.
Now the picture is a bit furry but that may just be my eyes.
Please freepmail me if you wish to be added or dropped from the mitten ping.
Very many shipwrecks in Lake Michigan, it’ll be fun to find out what vessel this is.
It isn’t the Mayan calendar ending in 2012, it’ll be the Demwit calendar. They’re done. :’) Happy New Year 2u2.
Once upon a time I heard that, in the 19th c, on average, a ship went down in the Great Lakes every six days.
[long pause]
That must have been one lousy ship, to sink that much.
[rimshot!]
The book "Great Lakes Shipwrecks" details many, but not all.
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