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Imagine scuba diving and searching for shipwrecks! Thousands of ships have sunk in the Great Lakes, many
of them Lake Michigan where storms blow up quickly and fiercely.
100 years, people had been walking right over it, until the current shifted and sands dispersed, yielding the
intact ship in a mere 12 feet of water! require gear to see – the steel freighter that sunk in 1960 sticks right
out of the water.
Since its “uncovering” in 1996, it’s become a haven for scuba divers and snorkelers. The Francisco
Morazon, also off South Manitou, doesn’t
require gear to see – the steel freighter that sunk in 1960 sticks right out of the water.
After a week’s training at one of Traverse City’s scuba shops, novice divers can search for lost ships of
their own, though some hide in deeper waters. The wrecks around here are world-class. Nowhere else in
the world are wrecks preserved like they are here. The secret? It's in the freshwater that lacks seawater’s
corrosive salt and wood-eating worms. Yuck!
The sites are protected by national legislation passed in the 1980’s and is now virtually surrounded by the
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It is an area 282 square miles of blue water where great shifting
sand is continuously uncovering some wrecks and covering others.
The proposed Grand Traverse Bay Underwater Preserve is a community movement to establish an
underwater preserve in Grand Traverse Bay in order to promote underwater recreation and Maritime
Heritage Tourism in the Great Lakes. The group's goal is to acquire a Great Lakes related ship or aircraft to
sink in Grand Traverse Bay as a new dive attraction to supplement the other great dive sites in Grand
Traverse Bay.
Shipwreck Map
Great Lakes Scuba
302 N. US 31 South
Traverse City, MI 49686
Phone: (231) 943-3483
Scuba North
13380 S. West Bay Shore Drive
Traverse City, MI 49684
Phone: (231) 947-2520
of them Lake Michigan where storms blow up quickly and fiercely.
100 years, people had been walking right over it, until the current shifted and sands dispersed, yielding the
intact ship in a mere 12 feet of water! require gear to see – the steel freighter that sunk in 1960 sticks right
out of the water.
Since its “uncovering” in 1996, it’s become a haven for scuba divers and snorkelers. The Francisco
Morazon, also off South Manitou, doesn’t
require gear to see – the steel freighter that sunk in 1960 sticks right out of the water.
After a week’s training at one of Traverse City’s scuba shops, novice divers can search for lost ships of
their own, though some hide in deeper waters. The wrecks around here are world-class. Nowhere else in
the world are wrecks preserved like they are here. The secret? It's in the freshwater that lacks seawater’s
corrosive salt and wood-eating worms. Yuck!
The sites are protected by national legislation passed in the 1980’s and is now virtually surrounded by the
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It is an area 282 square miles of blue water where great shifting
sand is continuously uncovering some wrecks and covering others.
The proposed Grand Traverse Bay Underwater Preserve is a community movement to establish an
underwater preserve in Grand Traverse Bay in order to promote underwater recreation and Maritime
Heritage Tourism in the Great Lakes. The group's goal is to acquire a Great Lakes related ship or aircraft to
sink in Grand Traverse Bay as a new dive attraction to supplement the other great dive sites in Grand
Traverse Bay.
Shipwreck Map
Great Lakes Scuba
302 N. US 31 South
Traverse City, MI 49686
Phone: (231) 943-3483
Scuba North
13380 S. West Bay Shore Drive
Traverse City, MI 49684
Phone: (231) 947-2520
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