I do agree with you, yet we do still get some great wrecks.I was speaking generally not in reference to Great Lakes. Shipping in general has become safer than it was a hundred years ago. Disasters like Titanic and Empress are less likely today than when they did happen. Rescue and damage control has also improved. Still crap can happen.
Some because of bad jugdement others because of morons.
Helge Ingstad: Norway stunned as warship sinks after collision - CNN
Costa Concordia - Wikipedia
If only they could place them at the right depth with easy access for divers.