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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 15:28 |
Noted Underwater Explorer Presents Great Lakes Seaway Trail Historic Shipwrecks June 13 in Sackets Harbor
 Sackets Harbor, NY (May 26, 2009) -- Noted shipwreck explorer Jim
Kennard will present an all-day program on the “Shipwrecks of Lake
Ontario” on Saturday, June 13 as part of the 2009 Great Lakes Seaway
Trail Experience Series. Kennard’s discoveries have received worldwide
attention and have been featured in National Geographic Magazine.
The program at the “Red Barn” at the
Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site on Hill Street in
Sackets Harbor benefits the nonprofit Great Lakes Seaway Trail
Foundation that promotes tourism-based learning experiences along the
518-mile-long freshwater shoreline of New York and Pennsylvania.
The waters of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
hold many of the more than 200 wrecks Kennard has discovered in more
than 35 years of diving. Each of his four presentations will focus on a
different wreck that Kennard and exploration partner Dan Scoville have
discovered over the past six years in Lake Ontario.
The program begins at 10 am and will include presentations on:
“Discovery of the Steamer Homer Warren,”
“The Last Voyage of the Schooner Etta Belle,”
“Discovery of an Early 19th Century Lake Ontario Schooner,” and
“The Deep Water Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario.”
During each program Kennard will present a brief update & short video on HMS Ontario,
a British sloop-of-war that sank in Lake Ontario on October 31, 1780,
during the Revolutionary War. Kennard also be signing copies of the
recently-published book “Legend of the Lake,” the story of the HMS Ontario.
Since 1970, Kennard has discovered
shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, NY Finger Lakes, and
Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Using his background as an electrical
engineer, Kennard built the side scan sonar system that located the
shipwrecks.
The 2009 Great Lakes Seaway Trail
Experience Series is sponsored by National Grid, Key Bank Foundation,
Town of Hounsfield, New York State Department of Transportation,
Federal Highway Administration, Seaway Trail Foundation, volunteers,
and the Dive the Seaway Trail Project. The program fee for the day-long
shipwrecks program on June 13th is $15 or $5/program payable at the
door.
The Dive the Seaway Trail project of the
Great Lakes Seaway Trail in partnership with New York Sea Grant and
local communities features world-class freshwater dive sites for
exploring shipwrecks and underwater landscapes accessed from the byway
that is one of America’s Byways and a National Recreation Trail.
For more information on the Great Lake Seaway Trail and the Dive the Seaway Trail Project, visit www.seawaytrail.com or call 315-646-1000.
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