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You are not allowed to view links.Please Register or LoginDivers find the shipwreck Lucy J. ClarkMonday, November 27, 2006 11:43 AM ESTKRISTINA HUGHES NEWS-REVIEW STAFF WRITERCROSS VILLAGE - In 1883, the wooden schooner Lucy J. Clark capsized in a gale.The ship is part of the tragic shipping folklore of the Great Lakes.Generations later Petoskey residents George Bommarito, 42, and Matt Paulus, 30, believe they may have discovered the Lucy J. Clark in Lake Michigan between Cross Village and Waugoshance Point.Like most boys who dream of treasure hunts and pirate ships, the divers are excited about their discovery.?My first dive, I was in awe,? Paulus said. ?I made a full circle around the site. I couldn't take my eyes off it.?During the discovery, Bommarito was equipped with nothing more than an 18-foot inflatable boat, a fish finder GPS and recreational diving equipment. Bommarito's wife, Kim, noticed a small blip on the sonar screen en route to another dive site in late August.?She gets some of the credit for the discovery,? Bommarito said.The next weekend Bommarito and Paulus returned to the coordinates. They discovered parts of a preserved schooner. The bow is stuck into the lake bottom, leaving the remainder of the boat broken, but the rudder is standing tall at the stern end of the wreck.The friends believe they may be the first divers to find the site.Bommarito said it was an eerie feeling, noticing the untouched site and artifacts left by the crew.?It was like we were the first people there,? Bommarito said. ?It was amazing. We wanted to know more about our mystery ship.?. . . . . The recent discovery is part of a diving adventure Bommarito almost gave up on. He tried the sport a few years ago, when he was pushing 40. But he almost gave up on the dream, busy with work as a production coordinator at McBride Construction.?Diving is one of those things that fascinated me,? Bommarito said. ?It was one of those things I thought I could never do.??It's amazing to think of what we've discovered while diving,? Bommarito said.Linkback: You are not allowed to view links.Please Register or Loginhttp://www.thunting.com/smf/index.php/topic,946.msg6991.html#msg6991
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You are not allowed to view links.Please Register or Login?Christmas Tree Ship? saga continuesSunken mysteryTWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) ? The saga of the doomed schooner Rouse Simmons, better known as the ??Christmas Tree Ship,?? has some added chapters after a diving expedition over the summer probed the site where the vessel went down in Lake Michigan 84 years ago. . . . . The ship was believed to be carrying more than 5,000 Christmas trees, piled in the hold and lashed to the deck, on the voyage from Manistique, Mich., to downtown Chicago, where Capt. Herman Schuenemann would sell the trees for 50 cents to $1 each or give them away to needy families. But when the Rouse Simmons set sail on Nov. 21, 1912, the weather was deteriorating. The ship was spotted more than a day later, its sails in tatters and flying a distress flag. A rescue boat couldn?t reach it, and it disappeared, along with the entire crew. For years afterward, commercial fishermen reported finding pine trees tangled in their nets. The ship was not found until 1971, when a wreck-hunter spotted it with the help of sonar. . . . . . . The divers found the ship?s two anchor chains, each 450 feet long, on deck at the bow of the ship. Their weight ? and the Christmas tree cargo ? contributed to a low-riding bow that probably went through instead of over the storm waves. . . .Linkback: You are not allowed to view links.Please Register or Loginhttp://www.thunting.com/smf/index.php/topic,946.msg7061.html#msg7061
