![]() ![]() Trotter said he has logged about 2,500 square miles of the 9,100 square miles of U.S. The divers follow a grid, a back-and-forth pattern, with a side-scan sonar, keeping meticulous records of water they’ve covered and water they haven’t. The group spends weekends, as it has for 35 years, plowing Lake Huron like a farmer’s field. The expenses are broken down and shared at the end of a season. ![]() It’s Trotter’s boat, and a fill up can run in the hundreds of dollars ($228.53 on a recent day). McGean, which was heading north in Lake Huron with a load of coal when it went down.Įach spring, he assembles his divers, a rotating bunch that this year included a policeman and a doctor who all share a dedication to this all-consuming hobby. It was Trotter who, in 1985, found another of the 1913 casualties, the John A. Along the way, he has found scores of other ships and even a few airplanes as he scours Lake Huron’s bottom every year with his crew. Veteran shipwreck hunter David Trotter, a 74-year-old former Ford financial man who lives in Canton, has had it on his wanted list for 30 years. waters in Lake Huron was discovered except the Hydrus. Since that time, every ship believed to have gone down in U.S. The ship lost everyone on board, a crew of 22, including five found frozen to death in a lifeboat that washed up in Canada.įlorida divers find 350 coins worth $4.5M The Hydrus had been headed south toward the St. 7 through 10, and eight of them were on Lake Huron. There were a dozen major shipwrecks from Nov. Not even the weather that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald, 40 years ago this week compares to the 1913 disaster. The Great Storm, even today, is the worst recorded on the lakes. 9 of that year, during a storm so ferocious it has been called the “White Hurricane.” The sky unleashed a blizzard over the Great Lakes, hitting Lake Huron hardest with wind gusts up to 90 m.p.h. Since the Great Storm of 1913, the 436-foot steamship Hydrus had been lost. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |