Pleasant Prairie Fire and Rescue personnel assist with the search for a 72-year-old scuba diver from Illinois who went missing Tuesday morning while exploring the remains of the SS Wisconsin shipwreck in Lake Michigan about six miles off the Pleasant Prairie shore line. The man was later recovered Wednesday morning.
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The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department leads the search for a 72-year-old scuba diver from Illinois who went missing Tuesday morning while exploring the remains of the SS Wisconsin shipwreck in Lake Michigan about six miles off the Pleasant Prairie shore line. The man was later recovered Wednesday morning.
IN PHOTOS: Documenting the shipwrecks of Wisconsin
Shipwrecks
Laminated dive cards showing the history and locations of scores of shipwrecks in Wisconsin waters have been created by the Wisconsin Historical Society and can be purchased by those wishing to visit a wreck.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Shipwrecks
Chris Spoo, a volunteer diver with the Wisconsin Historical Society, takes measurements last month on the Advance, located in about 85 feet of water off Cedar Grove in Sheboygan County.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Shipwrecks
Caitlin Zant views hand-drawn renderings of Lake Michigan shipwrecks in her office at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Shipwrecks
Caitlin Zant, a maritime archeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society, explains this three-dimensional rendering of the Abiah, which was built in 1848 and sank in 1854 off Sheboygan. The image was created with a computer and a remote underwater vehicle since the wreck is in about 220 feet of water.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Shipwrecks
Caitlin Zant uses an ink pen to trace a pencil drawing of the Advance. The ink drawing will allow it to be digitally reproduced and shared on websites, in educational material and on dive cards for those wishing to visit the wreck.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Shipwreck Research
A diver swims over the two-masted schooner Walter B. Allen, sunk in 1880. Credit: Tamara Thomsen, Wisconsin Historical Society
Pleasant Prairie Fire and Rescue personnel assist with the search for a 72-year-old scuba diver from Illinois who went missing Tuesday morning while exploring the remains of the SS Wisconsin shipwreck in Lake Michigan about six miles off the Pleasant Prairie shore line. The man was later recovered Wednesday morning.
The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department leads the search for a 72-year-old scuba diver from Illinois who went missing Tuesday morning while exploring the remains of the SS Wisconsin shipwreck in Lake Michigan about six miles off the Pleasant Prairie shore line. The man was later recovered Wednesday morning.
