thought some of you might be interested in this

[rick00001967]

two friends in my home town, thunder bay ontario canada......

For Lake Superior wreck hunters, historic tug?s discovery was serendipity (with video) | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

 

[Jared0425]

Nice tug, that was a lucky find. The North Shore is so remote to hunt, that there dozens of virgin wrecks along the coast.

 

[cayal]

How does one get into "hunting" wrecks anyway?

 

[rick00001967]

well, if you are in ontario, first you need a licence, then you apply for a tag, then you pay all the appropriate gov fees etc, then you wait for sept, then you go find one, shoot it, drag it out, gut it, hang it, butcher it, freeze it, and eat it.

oh wait......thats for moose......never mind

 

[Jared0425]

You have to talk to the Ontario's archeology office, then you have to show credentials as a side scan operator and then if you do get a 1 year permit, every time you go out on your boat wreck hunting a Canadian CO is onboard and you have to report where you have been and what you have found. That's why wreck hunting in Canada is rare. Here on the American side you just throw in fish and go. But you have to make grids and follow them and hunt in the shipping lanes where most wrecks are and play chicken with the freighters once in awhile. These guys who found the tug found it by accident and were not using side scan.

 

[shoredivr]

Yes, the govt here likes to make it difficult.