Photos: Documenting the shipwrecks of Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Historical Society sends divers to wrecks to take measurements and create detailed drawings of what lies below the surface. .
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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.
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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.
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Caitlin Zant views hand-drawn renderings of Lake Michigan shipwrecks in her office at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison.
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Maritime archaeologist Caitlin Zant uses a light table in her office at the Wisconsin Historical Society to add ink to a rendering of the Advance, a 117-foot-long schooner that sank in 1885. The wreck is now within the official boundaries of the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary, the 15th sanctuary of its kind in the country.
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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.
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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.
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Caitlin Zant, a certified diver since 2012, was in her element last month as she dove the Advance. The maritime archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society uses a mechanical pencil to draw sketches and record measurements on Mylar paper.
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A diver swims over the two masted schooner Walter B. Allen, sunk in 1880. Credit: Tamara Thomsen, Wisconsin Historical Society
A team of maritime archeologists from the Wisconsin Historical Society is documenting the scores of wrecks in the 962-square-mile Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary.
The Historical Society has selected Ralph Appelbaum Associates, an award winning firm based in New York City, to design exhibits for the four-story, 100,000-square-foot museum to rise at the top of State Street.Â
Up to 30,000 people could descend on Prairie du Chien this week as the expedition's anniversary through Wisconsin is celebrated.
Demolition of the existing museum is set to begin in early 2024 and construction expected to begin later that year with completion in about two years.
PLEASANT PRAIRIE — Authorities on Wednesday continued attempts to find the body of a 72-year-old diver who went missing Tuesday morning while exploring a historic near-century-old shipwreck in Lake Michigan.
