During the era when most Great Lakes cargo went on wood ships (and many of those were not huge), just the known wrecks averaged something like every six days. Freshwater waves come in more often than seawater waves, and can break a ship more quickly. I talked once with one of the guys that used Clive Cussler’s sub to look for wrecks, and said many of the recent wrecks appear to be insurance scams — stripped of anything that can be quietly sold later and scuttled during purported night cruises while a buddy is nearby to get him back to shore.
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Released shortly after the United States' entry into World War II, Reap the Wild Wind was wildly successful at the box office and earned three Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Special Effects.In 1840, Loxi Claiborne is running a marine salvage business started by her deceased father. A hurricane is passing through the Key West area, leaving behind at least one wreck on the nearby shoals. The Jubilee founders, and Loxi and other salvagers race to claim the cargo. Not arriving first, Loxi and her crew rescue the captain, Jack Stuart, but do not share in the salvage rights. Apparently, the first salvager on the scene, King Cutler, may have actually planned the wreck.