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Resourceful traveler: April 20
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More from Books"Shipwreck Hunter: Deep, Dark & Deadly in the Great Lakes," Ann Arbor Media Group, $24.95; ISBN: 978-1-58726-430-6
For divers, the Great Lakes are, in the words of author Gerald Volgenau, "a dangerous nirvana." Thousands of ships have foundered in these waters, and many remain submerged, some beautifully intact more than a century later. Among famous shipwrecks that have attracted divers to the Great Lakes are French explorer La Salle's ship, the Griffon, lost in 1679; Chicago's celebrated Christmas Tree ship, the Rouse Simmons, lost in a snowstorm in 1912; a Northwest airliner that went down in Lake Michigan in 1950; and the Edmund Fitzgerald, lost on Lake Superior in 1975. These and other famous wrecks provide the context for the story of Danny Fader who, in 1994, went down 200 feet in Lake Huron to wrestle the strongbox from an 1840s steamer and ran into very bad luck at the bottom. A principal actor in the drama is David Trotter, who leads the attempt to rescue Fader. Trotter has been the leading wreck diver in these dangerous waters for three decades, locating and documenting more lost ships here than anyone else, but the Fader case proves to be especially daunting.
— The Chicago Tribune
