Niagara Divers Shipwrecks
Jim Kennard has been diving and exploring the lakes in the northeast since 1970. He found over 200 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, NY Finger Lakes and in the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Using his background as an electrical engineer, he built the side scan sonar system that located many of these shipwrecks. …
Jim and Pat Stayer are explorers and well-known underwater filmmakers dedicated to sharing shipwrecks and remote dive destinations to audiences across North America. They co-authored 3 books and produced 30 DVDs. The couple has been referred to as one of the best animal behavior videographers, according to Ernie Brooks. Jim & Pat served as President …
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 …
Rudy Whitworth has been an active scuba diver since 1978 and has been an avid UW photographer since 1983. He has been a winner in many world wide UW photo contests. As President of Seahorse Productions, LLC, Rudy has been an entertaining speaker at DEMA, Our World Underwater, Beneath The Sea, SCUBAFEST, Shipwrecks and Scuba …
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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, …
“Shipwrecks/2016″was held on Saturday, April 9, 2016. We had approximately 400 people in attendance. For 2015, we had 39 door prizes donated ($2000.00 value) 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 the …
Master of Ceremonies & Story Teller This year, we are very pleased to have Jill as our Master of Ceremonies. Throughout the day she will be telling us stories from her many projects. A pioneering underwater explorer and filmmaker, Jill’s photography and writing have been featured in prominent publications around the world. In recognition of …
Beginning in 1977 Mike’s day started like everyone else’s, in the sun, wind and noise of the surface, then traveled to the underworld, into a perpetual gloom beneath Lake Erie. Working as a diver in marine construction, Mike did his time on the bottom in solitude, drilling rock, sand-bagging forms and pouring concrete. As new skills were learned, …
CRIS KOHL and JOAN FORSBERG, well-known maritime historians, scuba divers, authors, lecturers, photographers, and videographers, are a husband-and-wife team who love to explore shipwrecks, particularly those in the Great Lakes. They both have university degrees in History and underwater archaeology certifications from Great Britain’s Nautical Archeology Society (NAS). They have been interviewed about shipwrecks many …
Tom Kowalczk is the Director of Remote Sensing for the Cleveland Underwater Explorers (CLUE)and an avid shipwreck hunter, experienced researcher, sidescan sonar operator, and scuba diver. As a life-long resident of Ottawa County, Ohio, Tom grew up fishing and diving in Lake Erie. He began diving shipwrecks in 1965 and has been researching Great Lakes history …
A photojournalist for the Detroit Free Press, Eric Seals has covered many assignments around the world from the Intifadas in Israel/Palestine, 5 months covering the war in Iraq, various U.S. presidential campaigns and many sports, from the Olympics in Beijing and the upcoming 2016 games in Brazil, to several Super Bowls, Stanley Cups, World Series …
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 holds a B.Sc. in environmental science and is a 25-year …