Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, solving 128-year-old mystery
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton’s fate seems particularly cruel.
The 191-foot (58-meter) cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking both. The Ironton’s captain and six sailors clambered into a lifeboat but it was dragged to the bottom before they could detach it from the ship. Only two crewmen survived.
The gravesite long eluded shipwreck hunters.
Now, the mystery has been solved, officials with Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan, said Wednesday. The Associated Press obtained details of the discovery ahead of the announcement.
Read more: apnews.com/art...
(AP video: Mike Householder)
Subscribe for more Breaking News: smarturl.it/Ass...
Website: apnews.com
Twitter: / ap
Facebook: / apnews
Instagram: / apnews
You can license this story through AP Archive: www.aparchive.c...
Better to keep the location a secret; it’ll be picked clean otherwise.
It wouldn't be hard to find where it is by looking at the people involved, the ship and it's movements over the years, records and so forth. I'll bet there are already divers who have at least explored it, and likely taken what they could of interest.
You must not know about the diving community. This wreck has most likely been dived many many times before it was "rediscovered".
If it's deep enough, it should be preserved like they're saying. Look, but don't touch. The still tethered life boats really hit to make the story complete.
There's a glass bottom boat shipwreck tour that starts at the Thunder Bay harbor in Alpena. When I worked for the National Forest service in 2021, I sent families there when they were looking for things to do.
Alpena girl here, love ❤️ that tour. The museum is great too!
They say Superior never gives up her dead, but all of the lakes cling to their own dead like gruesome trophies. I love my home state and appreciate the beauty of its lakes, but I also respect them and their power.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
No need for any background music. This is why I didn't finish watching your video. So annoying
How awesome! It should be well preserved in fresh water. Last night I was watching a doc about the Swedish military flagship The Vasa, which sank in 1628 after sailing 1 km. It was retrieved after laying in Stockholm harbour for 370 years. Great find!
Zebra Mussels now cover all the wrecks.........
Next will be the Asian Carp....smh.
Us nords were a thousand years ahead of 99% of civilizations
Keep the place a secret! No has to know the right spot!!!!
don't fool yourself, people already know where it is.. No biggy.
The lake it is said never gives up her dead from the skies November turn gloomy.
The fact the life boats were still tethered is so sad. They didn't have a chance.
As a kid, I enjoyed historical battle sites. Now, after studying war all these decades, "enjoy" is not the word I would use.
The sad thing is the invasive zebra mussels that now infest the Great Lakes are probably going to destroy all these well preserved wrecks in a matter of decades. They cover every inch of them and with all that added weight and degradation you can imagine the outcome.
The shipping industry is introducing new invader every six months to the great lakes.
Hundreds of feet down? That should pretty much eliminate most divers from going down?
Idk seemed fairly well lit for being hundreds of feet down.
As far as ocean water goes, sunlight is still very visible down to 200 meters (over 600ft) or so. Lake Huron's deepest point is around 750ft. Not sure if salt water or fresh water makes any difference in those numbers, but, there ya go.
@@bradsanders407lights on the ROV
Yes, it’s near 300 feet, which is a technical dive, (most sport dive maximums are around 130 to 150 feet) which means hours coming up for a ~15 minute window on the wreck.
@@triggerbunny I have dream to dive at Porcupine bank (200 meters or so) do you think I will see the sea floor at that deep? I am really afraid that's it's very dark.
So our grandkids can enjoy these sites.
What?
Imagine jumping in the lifeboat only to be dragged down with the ship.
@@johnnyjericho8472 Imagine seeing a comment talking about seeing people say imagine under a comment saying imagine
@@johnnyjericho8472 Everyday is imagination day.
I already imagined that before I got to your comment.
That would really be a DRAG
Imagine there’s no heaven.
It would seem that if you drop anchor anywhere on the great lakes you wont be far from a ship wreck
Yeah Great idea! Preserve the site for future Generations by letting people go there....... Great Plan..................................
Still waiting for the James C. Caruthers to be found. Largest lost wreck in the lakes at this time.
The water is dangerous. I've lived on The South Coast of England virtually all my life, any large body of water is dangerous. Storms and fogs make it even worse. Every winter when the freshers arrive at our local Universities, if we've bad storms, then out come the landsmen, who've never lived by the sea. To them water is what you see in a swimming pool or bath. Not many tonnes of moving liquid you can't breath in. Every year at least one or two will die playing tag with the waves.
If they're are spectacularly unlucky, their friends will try to save them.
The same thing happens here on the coast of North Carolina, but it’s usually vacationing landlubbers
while we can't find mh370
AP is totally untrustworty.
Don't reveal the sight knowing people they'll flock to the area like crows and ruin this historical sight, should only be for study/research and observation
So, where is the grain hauler? Should be close by, shouldn't it?
They don’t mention here - the “grain hauler” Ohio was discovered earlier in 2017 so they knew the area but still couldn’t find the Ironton for 2 years it must have ended up some distance away. The Ironton was just a schooner-barge being towed by another ship.
Depends on how the wrecks occurred and how long it took them to go down. Most sinkings aren't instant. Lots attempt to fight the process for hours or even days before they're forced to abandon ship. The other ship could potentially be miles away.
5 people died including the captain. The AP should have mentioned that in their story.
They did
Haunting. Yet peaceful, and majestic.
So four years ago and we're just hearing about it now.
I would like to see a longer video on this and what about the other boat we’re is that
I know. Talk about playing 2nd fiddle.
There almost definitely is one. Great Lakes shipwrecks are really popular, and there's a distinct fascination with them. I'm about to look for one myself. If the topic interests you in general, check out the channel "Big Old Boats"- they've got great vids
The volume is too low. Hard to hear.
Well we know from watching the morticians videos, the lake never gives up her dead.
So tragic 💔😞
These shipwrecks should treated & revered for what they are which are silent memorials of someone's tragic ending and hallow ground. These wrecks should be off-limits to divers.
Divers are the ones finding these wrecks and helping to manage them.
The diving community aren’t a bunch of disrespectful bandits. There’s a few bad apples but most are just interested in seeing things close up, not disturbing sites like this.
@@johnflatt1288I could never. The deep, “dark”/low visibility unknown is terrifying. Can’t things still attack you in freshwater wrecks?
Coated in Zebra muscles?
Was it lying next to the Prinz Eugen?
...where do ships go when they sink ?
Awesome
What is this song?
i really hope they will eventualy let ppl dive with specific certifiactions for documenting the inside.
This was not a helpful video.... The text on screen was very small and hard to read, you didn't make the story clear of what happened the the ship in the first place, nor how it was found, what is being done to preserve or study it now..... Sheesh. 👎👎
For anyone who works in this field, what kind of benefits can we expect from successful finds like this? It is “just” an answer to a question or is there valuable research that we can do with wrecks like these?
Fascinating!
Don't say where it is, don't put a buoy on it.
They found it 4 years ago... Why are we hearing about it now? What is this non sense?
To bad we don’t take care of the needs of the people instead of the needs to save something lost many years ago.
That one group of passengers that tried escaping the Britannic
My grand pap was 6 years old when that tub went down.
What happened to the "Ohio" though?
Don’t mark it. Leave as a grave
How deep is it?
how deep is it
Any idea of what that last image was…seemed like a sword !?
Bowsprit.
Yep,try to protect it, because you WILL get unscrupulous divers trying to steal artifacts from it. I'm amazed that it's taken so long to find it? Are there no resources for a complete side-scan sonar search of the lake/lakes? Perhaps Robert Ballard could get interested!
Yup! Unfortunately. They did to the Titanic even though originally woodshole wanted it left alone.
That didn't last.
Not divers in the regular sense.
How can you enjoy the site if you don’t know where it is?
they are taking photo's for documentation , after which they will place a buoy over it so divers can see it
@@raskfel555 oh ok. They discovered this on 2019 and started taking photos then. I guess I am impatient. Three years is a long time to wait.
Since it sunk before world war 2 the metal is low background steel,
it has not been exposed to any radioactive particles.
the metal is very valuable and it would be stolen by salvagers if people knew the location
Imagine if we spent this kind of money on our veterans
Wow. I wish texas had history that was not evil. Everything here is terrible. Nothing to be proud of…
Found in Lake Huron…which is weird because it sank in the Mediterranean.
It's all that fresh water in the Mediterranean.
Why did it take 3 years to tell us?
Time to look for anything valuable.
Just a guess: probably to confirm it, study it, and take any artifacts for official study/preservation so they aren't stolen.
Because they don't want grave robbers stealing things while they are documenting
Covid they didn’t want the remote control vehicle to catch it
Oh you’re the sports ranking people
Kinda feel like it shouldn't be protected so future generations can "enjoy" that shipwreck and final resting place. But maybe that's just me. It should be protected, just not for enjoyment.
They should use Kevlar balloons and raise it