I love the fact that this is so well preserved for the most part. What a wonderful find. What time and the waves rolling over it haven't destroyed is still in very good condition. Plus the fact that there's no salt in the water makes preservation even better! The choice of music was fitting although there a couple bow squeaks here and there. I am looking forward to see more. Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us who cannot dive the great lakes.
Great video and awesome choice of music! This video got me back into diving again after 14 years. I dove her August 24 2016 and she is still as beautiful as the video. Thank you John.
I dove on this wreck 35 years ago. What memories. The deck was completly intact back then, could only enter hull through cargo hatches. Lots of deck fittings where still there. Still an awesome wreck. Great shots.
It's been pillaged for anything p3ople can grab....even the planks..looks like handprints a few places along the holes like someone was pulling them up but may be from pulling themselves through hatches
Fantastic filming, and I couldn't disagree more with the person below - this is the single greatest piece of music I've *ever* heard accompanying underwater film footage...utterly haunting & beautiful!
AWESOME VIDEO! I grew up going to Munising every summer as a kid to visit my grandparents and now my mom is retired there so we go to that ship wreck a lot by boat but I've never seen it up close ! Thank you for the Video! great job!
My family used to run one of the charter services up there in the 70s and 80s. Nice work capturing the wreck! This video brought back many fond memories.
I got open water cert. in 8/20/72 Worked commercial diving for 11 years. Now old has been two strokes can only watch videos. No family. I enjoy the videos brings back good and fun memories.
That's awesome! I'd love to dive that since it's only in 30 ft of water. Only need 1 tank but at least a 5 mil with hooded vest , or maybe a 7 mil with hooded vest in there. Superior is pretty damn cold I know
Stunning video,as many times in munising and grand island was never aware of it! Zebra mussels must not like cold water major difference between lower lakes , clarity is awesome!!!
Nice video John.I dived it back in the 80's.I remember seeing a glass bottom boat come over us.I like your rebreather,it looks like a closed circuit system,no bubbles!
It’s quite amazing really the ship is wood plus it’s cargo cover blew up from the pressure into the sky it’s still has not been found but the ship is otherwise intact
Beautiful!!!! And I think the choice of music is perfect for this. Mysterious, sad, ominous and haunting. I can't help but think of the crew's last moments on this ship as they struggled to keep it afloat. And how many died? Surprised it's so well preserved being that shallow too. Thanks for posting this.
MaxSpeedMedia it's never too late to learn Scuba. I waited nearly 40 yes FORTY years from the time my desire to Scuba dive was piqued until I took my OW certification course just last year!
a year ago I was in Paradise, Michigan on a fishing trip with a buddy and we made a stop at the Ship Wreck Museum* There I read that all wrecks weren't far at all from land and not in deep water* Very sad yet interesting, after my visit I've become even more interested in ship wrecks*
Hijak: I dove this one a couple of times. Great dive. The Smith Moore, a wooden steam barge in 90' of water. This is the most famous shipwreck in the area. The Smith Moore was lost in the Munising East Channel on July 13, 1889 as the result of damages suffered in a collision. The wreck lies nearly intact on the sand bottom.
Back in the 70's before preservation, you could still plunder these ships, people wanted portholes and anything brass. Tables, even the wood was grabbed and used for coffee tables. I know this by an older guy that used to dive on them. Cables, brass, anything metal was taken. Oak batrrels, lanterns, personal effects, all plundered until the later 70's then maritime laws put a stop to it. I remember going to flea markets seeing port holes and hatches being sold anything ship wreck brought big money on the resale market. The poor populations up in the UP thought nothing of pilfering these old ships. They would strip them of their wood if they could. I see brand new snowmobiles being stolen up there every winter. The police dont even bother looking because they probably get kickbacks.
Superior is the only Great Lake that hasn’t been seriously affected by the invasive Zebra Muscle. The Great Lakes hav some of the best preserved wrecks in the world but the 4 lower lakes, recreational diving has seen these muscles attached too the wrecks and are hiding the true beauty of these time capsules!
like the video nice good condition of shipwrek, breaking of deck due to rigging falling down or ancring dammages? any remains of steering construktinon. weel or "stick"?
Is this the wreck in the bay that had to have the mast removed so it wouldn't be a hazard to other boats cruising through the area? Just curious from non diver non boater.
John, would it be possible to use a couple of seconds of your footage, so I could incorporated the Bermuda into my project. I'm working on a video to showcase Grand Island and I would love to show couple seconds of the shipwreck, I will give you full credit at the end. Thank you.....
that wall midship, is it a box for a "mobile" keel? strange to se bulkhead going from keel to upper deck in that mannor/ direktion. or maybe a reinforsment to prevet long ship deformation? (midship hull rasing in relation to bow stern , over time due to difrent water desplasment / uppdrift)
Yes there are some shipwrecks that have human remains that are visible. The remains are usually decomposed to a point where it is not immediately obvious that it is a human.
