The 121 foot brig James McBride lies in 5 to 15 feet of water near Sleeping Bear Point. In 1848 the McBride was the first ship thought to have successfully made the journey from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Michigan.
Posted on 05/03/2015 12:59:34 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Though the past winter was the hottest on record, it was chilly enough on the East Coast to send seasonal sheets of ice creeping across the Great Lakes. Now that that ice has cleared with spring, Lake Michigan is clear enough that shipwrecks lying on the lake bottom can be seen from the air.
The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in Traverse City noted the crystal clear water conditions and the lost ships during a routine patrol. Last week, they posted a handful of pictures to their Facebook page. The images come from the area near Sleeping Bear Point known as the Manitou Passage Underwater Preserve, which is "one of the richest areas in Michigan for shipwreck diving," according to the preserve’s website. The lumber industry put the area on a shipping route. The North and South Manitou Islands, just north of the point, provided a somewhat sheltered area for ships hiding from storms.
Susan Cosier, writing for On Earth, reports:
Not much is known about most of the wrecks, but they do include one doomed vessel, the James McBride, which was thought to be the first to carry cargo from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Michigan in 1848. Facebook commenters helped fill in some of the blanks, but most the historic details are still, well, watery.
The Coast Guard Air Station added what information people could dredge up from the depths of the Internet to their descriptions of each of the photos, but of the five ships they posted, three remain unidentified.
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The 121 foot brig James McBride lies in 5 to 15 feet of water near Sleeping Bear Point. In 1848 the McBride was the first ship thought to have successfully made the journey from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Michigan.
That didn't take long.
Interesting. Mother Nature, restoring and cleansing itself.
Wow, that’s neat!
I recall school studies in grade school in the 1950’s telling us that Lake Erie was so polluted, nothing would ever grow or live in the waters. Oil and chemicals were so thick on the service, that there were fires on the lake. Not any more.
“In 1848 the McBride was the first ship thought to have successfully made the journey from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Michigan.”
Well, I sure hope the sinking of the McBride was during a subsequent voyage because - otherwise - the author understands “success” differently than I do.
[T]he lakes altogether were 88.3% ice-covered as of Sunday — more than the 86% ice cover on the lakes on March 1, 2014, amid a winter with record snowfall and near-record frigid temperatures.
"Last winter, we had a little bit of a warm-up near the end of February, before we got another cold blast. This winter, we've had consistently cold temperatures," said George Leshkevich, a physical scientist with the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.
"Hottest on record" used to mean something.
But a little thing like facts won't stop the GW crowd. They'll just keep putting that message out there trying to ingrain it into everyone's thought process. "Why, of course global warming is real, you hear about it all the time, right?" Right, but those are all lies, distortions, and outright fabrications.
I think it sank on the way back.
“Well, I sure hope the sinking of the McBride was during a subsequent voyage because - otherwise - the author understands “success” differently than I do.”
The words under the picture say that it traded goods back to the Atlantic.
James Smithson (Jacques-Louis Macie) rolls in his grave that the institution he founded promulgates such lies.
http://www.weather.com/news/news/great-lakes-ice-cover-february-2015#!
Hottest winter on record...With back to back ice cover exceeding 80% on the Great Lakes for the 1st time since the 70’s...
“I recall school studies in grade school in the 1950’s telling us that Lake Erie was so polluted, nothing would ever grow or live in the waters. Oil and chemicals were so thick on the service, that there were fires on the lake. Not any more.”
I went through school years, in the Lost Angeles metro sprawl, and the air was horrific. It is much better now.
A rational person has to admit the “environmentalists” pushed the political system, to push businesses and local governments, to clean up our water and air.
But I know that little area almost as well as middle TN
I wouldn't want to live there but I like visiting a lot
It's very pretty great north woods meets Great Lakes
Most folks are ok
Takes more effort to butter em up than down here but I still try every time
Even the old bobbed hags or the hippies
Rural Michigan folk are not wholly unlike mid south people
Trucks gun racks and hunting and country music
They just talk funny and are more likely to be favorable over unions
Lots of Gadsden flags and in The Yoopers area u even see CSA battle flags
An eccentric bunch for sure
Only drawback is not as much work for folks
Decent food too
You could do worse
My kids climb that back side of the dunes near Empire all the time
It's a beast
And the one that goes down to the lake
No way for me
Those folks up there act like 60s is summer beach weather
Crazy
God love em
Lake Michigan is two blocks from my house. It sure as hell wasn’t the hottest winter on record here.
Where’s the Edmond Fitzgerald?
I wonder why the author didn’t try to connect the cleaner water to global warming.
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