Are you a Diver in the Great Lakes area, a maritime history buff or just curious about the underwater world? Come to the 2012 Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival held on Saturday, February 25th, 2012 and find out what it is all about.
The festival will held at Washtenaw Community College’sMorris Lawrence Building at 4800 East Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105.
The programs run from 9 am to 5 pm featuring a wide variety of sessions on Great Lakes shipwrecks, exotic dive locations from around the world and education/technical sessions. In the Exhibit area, there will be book signings, exhibits from local maritime artists, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, dive equipment manufacturers, diver charter operations and dive travel agencies. A number of local dive shops will be represented as well as underwater marine sanctuaries, and local quarries. Shipwrecks are always the theme of this event and this year is no exception. The Festival has three venues including presentations on Great Lakes shipwrecks, exotic saltwater destinations and Educational/Technical topics.
In the Shipwreck Room; Valerie van Heest will share three new Lake Michigan discoveries – a sloop, a schooner and a schooner barge. David Trotter will present three new shipwreck finds from 2011 titled “Vanishing Points!” Jim and Pat Stayer will highlight a historically significant Tuskegee Airman aircraft found in the St. Clair River. Sue Smith has put her Tech Diving equipment to good use to bring us some deep shipwrecks. Tony Gramer brings us video on the Fred McBrier that was lost in a collision on October 3, 1890. Ross Richards knows that the Manitou Passage is dangerous and he will bring us the “Shipwrecks of Sleeping Bear Point”.
In the Saltwater Room, Tony Gramer will take us to the Socorro Islands, “Where the Giants Roam” – mantas and whale sharks are highlighted. Roger Roth will take us to Egypt and share his video of the “Shipwrecks of the Sinai Peninsula”. Jeff Ginther will share a DVD presentation on the “Cayman’s Newest Shipwreck – USS Kittiwake”. Jim and Pat Stayer will show their wide angle video of Diving San Benedicto Island off the coast of Mexico. Merik Standowicz will show his dark, deep and cold “Shipwrecks of Arctic Norway” and Rudy Whitworth will provide presentations from the Caribbean Windward Islands of Dominica and St. Vincent.
Tickets for the event are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. For ticket information or program details, visit www.shipwreckfestival.org, call (734) 485-0492 or e-mail glsftickets@aol.com. Ticket order forms with a more detailed list of programs and times will be mailed in January 2012.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck festival is presented by the Ford Seahorses in conjunction with the Dossin Great Lakes Museum. The festival offers the opportunity to speak with various exhibitors and listen to historical presentations.
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