1849 Shipwreck Found in Lake Ontario
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By BEN DOBBIN  ROCHESTER, N.Y. - After more than 160 years, the twin masts of the Milan still stand erect - all the more remarkable because the commercial sailing ship sits in the dark depths of Lake Ontario.
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The husband's story was extraordinary: He and his wife spent the afternoon cruising the bay on their watercraft before becoming bogged down in thick offshore mud. The vessel caught fire and sank, the couple was stranded for hours, and the wife was dead the next morning.
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Divers off the Pembrokeshire coast may be about to re-write history after discovering an unidentified shipwreck.
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By Will Elliott  Lake Ontario fishing could become even better if plans to restore that lake's fishery are carried out.
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Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi drifts in heavy seas Wednesday after losing power due to a fire accident. AFP. DUBLIN  - British tug boats sailed Thursday to join a major rescue operation for a Canadian
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Drowned 50 years ago for progress and the promise of near limitless water, the town of Old Adaminaby has re-emerged from its sunken grave as drought ravages one of Australia's biggest lakes.
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After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a specially built basket, a state news agency reported.
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By Maricella Miranda, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 21--A Burnsville man was seriously injured Wednesday on Lake Marion in Lakeville after a water craft accident.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 6--GULFPORT -- An Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation of the March 21 drowning of two construction workers in a storm-damaged casino barge could result in fines exceeding $85,000.
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PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio Aug. 20, 2004  Diane Mahdinel arrived Friday on Lake Erie&#39;s South Bass Island with her own bottled water, sandwiches and hand sanitizer. She didn&#39;t want to take any chances with a mysterious illness that has sickened hundreds of ...
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HALIFAX (CP) - HMCS Chicoutimi left Scotland on its ill-fated maiden voyage to Canada with an unresolved glitch in its main electrical system, The Canadian Press has learned.
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By Bruce R. Posten, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Mar. 5--IN WINTER'S WANING days, ice retreats from the banks of French Creek; a cannon lies locked in layers of ice next to a stack of pig iron bars; and a water wheel remains motionless.
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By Autumn Grooms, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jun. 11--For a young Rosalie "Roz" Schnick, vacation meant grabbing her rod and reel and heading to a Canadian lake in search of northern pike.
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By Steve Neavling, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 4--Dangerous levels of contaminates are threatening wildlife and the water quality of Lake St. Clair, one of the most popular bodies of water for boaters and anglers in the Great Lakes region, data released today shows.
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Researchers have found and raised fragments believed to be from a Soviet steamship that sank more than 70 years ago off the Arctic region of Chukotka, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.
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"The treasure in this case is the wreck itself."  A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.The barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet of crystalline coastal waters off Catalina Island are believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.'When I first looked down and saw it, I couldn't believe everybody missed it for 300 years,' said Charles Beeker, a scuba-diving archaeologist who teaches at Indiana University. 'I've been on thousands of wrecks and this is one of the first where it's been untouched by looters.' Read more
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A half-mile offshore, 25 feet below the surface of Lake Ontario, the hull of the David B. Mills lies wrecked in three large sections, broken apart after a violent October storm 88 years ago after running aground on Ford Shoals.