Searchers find wreck of luxury steamer lost in Lake Michigan more than 150 years ago

https://apnews.com/article/shipwreck-lake-michigan-c9736b35a5671979b6a0603c46be9020

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sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 212d (2 replies)

If they found it 150 years ago, then why is this in news.

GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 212d

It’s da annevarsary stoopid!!!

TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 3 pts · 212d

I’m so sad you got downvoted for what I’m about 85% confident was a dad joke.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 212d (1 reply)

The Great Lakes are home to anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 shipwrecks, most of which remain undiscovered, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Water Library.

It's like the searchers aren't even trying, sunken ships are like the main feature of the bottom at this point.
(For real tho - the corporate greed on not just building better ships to handle the bad weather that happens a few times per season, or even just directly to handle harsh winter weather, was real. They were losing a few ships evey storm.)

redsand@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 212d

The great lakes are fresh water seas. Relative to the Mediterranean that's not even that many ships on bottom