Marquette Coordinates

[tankdiver]

Hey Guys Im Diving Georgian Bay Tomorrow does anyone have the coordinates and/or info on this wreck help greatly appreciated Thanks

 

[Mikey0929]

tankdiver,

I have a bit of information which comes from The Great Lakes Diving Guide by Chris Kohl (You should pick it up as it has a lot of good information in it on great lakes diving). It only gives a LORAN location of 29620.0/48917.0 I don't have GPS Co-ordinates for it. It sits at 29-45' and is a Novice/Intermediate dive. It lies off the north east corder of Hope Island. It still has 2 wooden stocked anchors with chains, a samson post, a capstan lying on its side, double framing on it's hull, a centerboard box, a centerboard winch, main mast step, hatch coaming, planksheers, transom wing and a portion of the rudder. Good luck and I hope this information helps you!

Mike

 

[tankdiver]

Thanks Very Much I ended up diving the the maple dawn went with a place i knew
Thanks

 

[fyr-guy]

Hey TD, Here are the #'s for the Marquette for the next time you're out that way N 44.54.680, W 080.09.390.
This is a nice little wreck in shallow water (40'). It is usually marked with a jug.
If you are interested in how early schooners were constructed then this is a good example as all of the decking is gone allowing access to the lower hull.
This wreck was discovered in the early 70's and as word spread of it's location it was systematically picked over by souvineer hunters untill all that remained is the bare hull and surpisingly the anchors.
The group Save Ontario Shipwrecks (SOS) was formed partly because of the experience with the Marquette in the hope that divers would leave the wrecks as they were found so that fellow divers might appreciate the site as well.

 

[simcoediver]

Tank Diver, heres an excellent resource for you,it has hundreds of GPS coords for wrecks in this area and around the Great Lakes including the ones in Georgian Bay too. Go to www.geodiving.com and click on locations, you can then do a search if you know the name of the wreck,e.g. Marquette, it will also give you the locations of any other wrecks near the Marquette.If you register it gets even better as it will list all the wrecks by distance from your home.Try it I think you will like this website.

 

[tankdiver]

Thanks very much guys for all your help i was confused on the marquette coordinates as th Geo Diving Coordinates and the Ontario Shipwreck Directory had her in two different places but thanks very much

 

[Groundhog246]

Geodiving co-ordinates are correct, as well as their co-ordinates for the Lottie Wolf just up a bit North. Marquette is more like 35 feet max. The jug (if no ones removed it) is toed to one of the ships anchors. One neat feature of the wreck is the centerboard box standing near the center of the hull. Lottie Wolf is much shallower (about 18 feet max) and flattened/scattered. But you can see how these ships were constructed and double planked.

 

[Groundhog246]

As an addendum. There are two nomenclatures in common useon charts. On older charts you found degrees minutes seconds such as W 45 34' 23" Many newer charts use degrees minutes 10ths of minutes, so you'll get W 45 34.38' for the same position. GPS units can be set to either. I've seen a lot of people have there GPS set for one and enter the digits from the other and then wonder why they didn't find the target, or in a bad case, why they ran aground. Geodiving uses the newer Degrees, Minutes, Tenths. You'll also sometimes see decimal degrees so the above would just be W 45.573, I think land surveyors may use this form, but I've never seen a marine chart or GPS that does.

 

[Rick Lymer]

Hey TD, Here are the #'s for the Marquette for the next time you're out that way N 44.54.680, W 080.09.390.
This is a nice little wreck in shallow water (40'). It is usually marked with a jug.
If you are interested in how early schooners were constructed then this is a good example as all of the decking is gone allowing access to the lower hull.
This wreck was discovered in the early 70's and as word spread of it's location it was systematically picked over by souvineer hunters untill all that remained is the bare hull and surpisingly the anchors.
The group Save Ontario Shipwrecks (SOS) was formed partly because of the experience with the Marquette in the hope that divers would leave the wrecks as they were found so that fellow divers might appreciate the site as well.

Thanks for the information. I'll be going there May 12th,2012. Now if I can thread my way through the rocks getting to the Mapledawn.

 

[ivakdiver]

Actually, the Ontario Marine Heritage Committee OMHC was formed in 1975 shortly after the Hope Island Wreck(Marquette) was discovered. They conducted a five year study and monitoring of the wreck which documented the impact that recreational divers had on the wreck site. This project was the first licensed underwater Archaeological project in Ontario after The Heritage. Act was introduced.