GPS for greatlakes wrecks"good no's"repost

[moneysavr]

Hi, looking to get a list of GPS for wrecks on the greatlakes,have some/or most GPS from Maritime Trails,but would like to see if other sites or good/Bad No#s are out there and like to put a list and then do actual locations on bouy and no bouy sites,any info thanks! Im dumping the old-old Loran,
may be a good site to do a link to!
Thanks Brad

 

[jsbromley]

Hi, looking to get a list of GPS for wrecks on the greatlakes,have some/or most GPS from Maritime Trails,but would like to see if other sites or good/Bad No#s are out there and like to put a list and then do actual locations on bouy and no bouy sites,any info thanks! Im dumping the old-old Loran,
may be a good site to do a link to!
Thanks Brad

This link will provide you with a few.

http://www.westmichigandivecenter.com/gps_loran_data.htm

 

[SwimJim]

Moneysaver

First off you might try books by Chris Kohl. Jerry Guyer though Pirates cove in Milwaukee sells a local wreck guide that has numbers and maps. You might try calling the local charter boat captains for numbers on a specific wreck. The worse they can do is say I dunno. Lastly you can do what I do and go out and search for targets to dive on. Tough going, but you can run into some interesting stuff. A dive plane search is alot of fun too. I put one together last summer and I'll tell you, its really cool. Best of luck!

Jim

 

[moneysavr]

Moneysaver

First off you might try books by Chris Kohl. Jerry Guyer though Pirates cove in Milwaukee sells a local wreck guide that has numbers and maps. You might try calling the local charter boat captains for numbers on a specific wreck. The worse they can do is say I dunno. Lastly you can do what I do and go out and search for targets to dive on. Tough going, but you can run into some interesting stuff. A dive plane search is alot of fun too. I put one together last summer and I'll tell you, its really cool. Best of luck!

Jim

Thanks Jim,
I will have to bend your ear when I get the floor quote, will call you this next week,its been nuts with the holidays and well been diving down south were its been warm!Man I see a few weeks ago some guys were out with Jerry= I just cant see me doing that dry !! with or without flaming undies! Time to start the count down on the months.
Brad

 

[coffeefein24]

Any pics of your dive plane?? Sounds like more fun than just looking at the fish finder all afternoon.

Thanks
Nate

 

[SwimJim]

I don't have any pictures of the plane, but its a very simple setup. Its a piece of 3/4 inch plywood about the same width as your shoulders and eighteen inches front to back. It has three handles on it, left, right and center. There is a rope that attaches mid board and forms a loop that has a ring on it. A tow line from the boat is attached to the ring. The diver hangs onto the handles and pivots the plane to control his depth. The center handle is used for one hand operation so the diver can clear his ears, mask, check guages and deploy markers. When we use it we have the diver tow a flag as well as fly one on the boat. If the diver sees something he wishes to check out, he simply lets the plane go and retains the towed dive flag. This way the boat operator knows where the diver is at all times. I have been towed and towed other divers as deep as seventy feet. Going deeper would not be a problem. I have three hundred feet of line and let out plenty of it. I've used the plane about half a dozen times this year and I can tell you, it opens a whole new dimension to diving. Its fairly effortless. You get great air consumption and you can cover MILES. If you don't wish to build your own, Liesure Pro carries them and I think performance scuba has them too. You can buy one off the shelf for about seventy bucks. I went to Fleet & Farm and bought what I didn't have laying around. I think I spent about ten bucks. The line was the big investment. I think that ran about twenty cents a foot. Great fun.

Jim

 

[Tiny Bubbles]

Interesting... How fast can you tow a diver? And what all have you found searching for stuff this way?

 

[SwimJim]

We've been running around two miles an hour as indicated by the paddlewheel sensor on my graph. The currents mess with you a bit and were still tweaking that in. Much faster and the water pressure pushes the purge on the reg and the water blows up your hood like a balloon. We have used this in the vicinity of the wreck of the Niagara which is a paddle wheel steamer that burn't, broke up and sank. She has a widely spread debris trail. We have discovered bits and pieces of her that we haven't seen before. Nothing truely exciting, but fun none the less. There is a few things I would like to find out there. I too have been watching my graph for years and dove on targets. There is an area to the south of me that has many clay hills on the bottom. One of next summers projects is to fly over them and see if they are hiding anything from the sonar. Theres just too many bumps to dive them one by one. Thanks to the zebra mussels we usually have 30 to 40 foot viz or better around here which is plenty for running the plane.

Jim

 

[foneguy]

here is a link for lake erie near cleveland thru erie pahttp://www.aquatic-world.com/ErieWrecks.htm
i think i did it right if not just go to the site i liisted abovehttp://www.aquatic-world.com/ErieWrecks.htm

 

[SwimJim]

I was photographing some other things today and I took a picture of the dive plane I use. I put a dive mask on it so you can better determine the size. Pretty simple gadget and a blast to use.

Jim