{"id":2867,"date":"2014-04-05T10:46:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T10:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2021-02-27T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T18:12:30","slug":"mike-and-georgann-wachter-shipwrecks-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/mike-and-georgann-wachter-shipwrecks-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike and Georgann Wachter – Shipwrecks 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mike and Georgann Wachter are well known as the authors of\u00a0Erie Wrecks and Lights,<\/em>\u00a0Erie Wrecks East<\/em>, and\u00a0Erie Wrecks West<\/em>. In addition to their books, Mike and Georgann have recently published a Lake Erie shipwreck map listing over 300 GPS wreck coordinates for divers.

They have been diving around the world since the mid 1970\u2019s.\u00a0 However, nowhere else in the world have they discovered the kind of pristine and perfectly preserved shipwrecks that lie in the fresh waters of the Great Lakes. This has resulted in the discovery or rediscovery of 30 wreck sites. What was once a part time hobby became a full time investigation of the myths and realities behind the thousands of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have written numerous magazine articles and have a passion for creating diver access to and preserving Great Lakes maritime history.\u00a0 Both have been active in the Maritime Archaeological Survey Team (MAST) where Mike is past president and Georgann has been treasurer. Under Mike\u2019s tenure 6 shipwrecks in Ohio waters were moored for divers.\u00a0 They are active members of Lake Erie Wreck Divers and Bay Area Divers scuba clubs. They co chair the annual Bay Area Shipwrecks & Scuba symposium.\u00a0

Georgann was inducted into the international Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2013 for documenting over 250 Great Lakes shipwrecks with her writing, research and marine artwork. Mike is a recently retired management consultant who now devotes his time to finding, exploring and telling tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks and lighthouses. He hosts a database on wrecks at\u00a0eriewrecks.com<\/a>. The collaboration of Georgann\u2019s love of research and Mike\u2019s love of story telling provides the fuel for the Erie Wrecks series.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armored Warriors of the Deep<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Many divers use mixed gases and deco gases to reach depths beyond 100 feet.\u00a0 The groundwork for this was laid by early hard hat divers who called their dive suits \u201cdive armor\u201d. This program tells the story of these “armored warriors of the deep”, and the influence they had on Great Lakes diving, treasure, and salvage work. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soon diving developed into underwater construction jobs that could be hazardous, as one Chicago hard hat diver found out. During this program we will visit many of the wrecks we dive today through the eyes of the early hard hat diver.\u00a0 Included in the program are the Atlantic, Morning Star, Wisconsin, Pewabic, and others. A demonstration of some commercial equipment completes the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike and Georgann Wachter are well known as the authors of\u00a0Erie Wrecks and Lights,\u00a0Erie Wrecks East, and\u00a0Erie Wrecks West. In addition to their books, Mike and Georgann have recently published a Lake Erie shipwreck map listing over 300 GPS wreck coordinates for divers. They have been diving around the world since the mid 1970\u2019s.\u00a0 However, … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shipwrecks.niagaradivers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}