Niagara Divers Shipwrecks
Speakers & Presentations “Shipwrecks/2017″was held on Saturday, April 1, 2017. We had approximately 350 people in attendance. For 2017, we had 45 door prizes donated which are now listed on the web site along with the contributors and winners’ names. The Fort Erie Underwater Recovery Unit once again held a 50/50 draw with proceeds going to …
Masters of Ceremonies and Speakers.
Black Friday: The 100th Anniversary of the Great Storm of 1916
Cris Kohl and Joan Forsberg are a husband-and-wife team who are among the most prolific Maritime Historians in Ontario and the Great Lakes. The authors of 16 books and more than 300 magazine/newsletter articles, they have also produced 16 documentary programs on Great Lakes Maritime History, as well as several Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Lighthouses …
Walter Lewis took up diving in 1990 specifically to dive on the wreck of the CORNWALL. At Shipwrecks ‘95, he did a presentation on the wreck, which was subsequently the subject of The River Palace, co-authored with Rick Neilson and published by Dundurn Press in 2008. In the following year, he and Rick were awarded …
Ken Merryman is Past President and founding member of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society and a retired computer engineer. He is a veteran speaker at scuba shows including Gales of November and Ghost Ships and gives several shipwreck talks each year. Ken has been an avid Lake Superior shipwreck diver for over 40 years …
Kimberly Monk is a research fellow and lecturer in maritime archaeology at the University of Bristol (UK). Originally from Toronto, she worked with Save Ontario Shipwrecks whilst an undergraduate at Western University. She later received a Master’s degree in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University and completed a PhD in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Bristol. …
Scott Stitt is a former commercial hard-hat diver with hundreds of hours of mixed gas and saturation dives logged in the offshore oil and gas industry. He’s worked with Texas A&M University and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) as an underwater field archaeologist. Scott is a trimix instructor and cave diver, who’s worked as …
David Trotter has been involved in Great Lakes shipwreck searching, diving, exploration, and documenting new discoveries for 35+ Years. In solving “History’s Mysteries” he has made significant contributions to the history of our Great Lakes and provided new exploration opportunities for sport and technical divers to enjoy. His Discoveries have been featured on the Discovery Channel, …
Door Prize list, Thanks to all the supporters that donated Door Prizes.
Geoff Barker started diving in his native England in 1966 with the BSAC (British Sub Aqua Club). Diving primarily off the southern coast of England, he attained the BSAC equivalent of instructor qualification. He soon realized he needed to record a what he was seeing, so he became an underwater photographer, using home–made equipment at …
The third annual symposium on Shipwrecks, organized by the Niagara Divers’ Association, a Niagara-based dive club of about 50 members, was held on Saturday, March 1, 1997 in Welland, Ontario. The one-day event attracted an audience of over 400, who came to listen to presentations on Shipwrecks ranging from recreational through to technical requirements, as well as expanding the history of a number of Great Lakes shipwrecks.
Cris Kohl, one of our most popular speakers, has returned for his third year with SHIPWRECKS. Cris, a long time resident of the central Great Lakes region, has been a very active and avid scuba diver since 1974. He has written several books on diving in Ontario, including Dive Southwestern Ontario; Shipwreck Tales: The St. Clair River (to …
Out of the Blue Productions is really three people, Jim & Pat Sayer and Tim Juhl. Since 1987, the trio has been working together to locate and produce documentaries on shipwrecks, primarily in the Great Lakes. They started out shooting 35 mm slides and have graduated to using digital video cameras and state-of-the-art computer based editing equipment. Educators …
Dennis Hale, the sole survivor of the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell, lives quietly with his wife Doria in Dayton, Ohio. Today Dennis works as a skilled machinist, and must daily deal with his memories of the night that changed his life forever. Dennis has collaborated with Tim Juhl and Pat & Jim Stayer to produce a book on his experience, …
Frederick Stonehouse has authored eleven books on Great Lakes history, with a twelfth due out in the summer of 1997. He is a frequent lecturer on diving, shipwreck exploration and maritime research, with major presentations given at “Our World Underwater” in Chicago and “Underwater Canada” in Toronto. Among many other accomplishments, he has served as project director …
THE LUSITANIA & TITANIC HIGHLIGHT SHIPWRECKS/96 The second annual symposium on Shipwrecks, organized by the Niagara Divers’ Association, a Niagara-based dive club of about 50 members, was held on Saturday, March 2, 1996 in St. Catharines, Ontario. The one-day event attracted an audience of 365, who came to listen to presentations on Shipwrecks, ranging from recreational through …
Gary Gentile started his diving career in 1970. Since then he has made more than 1000 decompression dives, over 100 of them on the Andrea Doria. He has specialized in the fields of wreck diving and shipwreck research, concentrating his efforts on wrecks along the East Coast, from Canada to Key West, and the Great Lakes. He has published …
Marc Beaudry has been diving since 1976 and holds ratings of Divemaster, Full Cave and Trimix. His passion for underwater video photography has taken him to locations in the Caribbean, Mexican cenotes, Florida fresh water caves and Great Lakes wrecks. Marc has documented the Frontenac in her still virgin state: intact hull and deck, cabin and wheelhouse …
Steve Blasco received his Honours Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering Geophysics from Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario and for the past 18 years has been employed as a marine engineering geophysicist with the Geological Survey of Canada, at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. His research focuses on marine environmental and engineering geology studies. Seafloor and …
Reg Creighton is the current National Director and Director of Training for IANTD Canada. He is also one of the current leaders for the Transpac 95 Expedition, as well as technical diving in Canada. Reg is a fully certified commercial diver, hyperbaric chamber operator, hyperbarics instructor and instructor trainer/trainer for all levels (except Cave) within the IANTD organization. Transpac 95 Reg Creighton will …