Attention shipwreck devotees
MARQUETTE — At 6:30 p.m. March 5, scuba diver and historian Dan Fountain will take you on the voyage of the Arlington.
The presentation, at the Marquette Regional History Center in Marquette, will focus on the summer of 2023, when a group of shipwreck hunters set out for the middle of Lake Superior in search of a shipwreck. They succeeded in finding an intact steel steamer in deep water, but what ship was it?
Subsequent ROV dives to the wreck revealed its unexpected identity, and further research revealed that the wreck had tales to tell of rescue by a nearby freighter, the first trip on the lake for two young deckhands, and the veteran captain who wouldn’t (or couldn’t?) abandon ship and went down to a watery grave.
There is a $5 suggested donation.