{"id":28420,"date":"2025-05-23T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28420"},"modified":"2025-05-23T18:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:26:55","slug":"historic-shipwrecks-come-to-light-in-the-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28420","title":{"rendered":"Historic Shipwrecks Come to Light in the Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, the Lake Guardian left the port of Oswego, N.Y., preparing to sail into the nation\u2019s past. The research vessel, which belongs to the Environmental Protection Agency, is exploring the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary<\/a>, a 1,722-square-mile expanse that stretches from the shoreline of New York State to the (watery) border with Canada.<\/p>\n

There, 63 ships<\/a> rest beneath hundreds of feet of cold, clear water. Many had sailed in the service of nation-building some time during the 19th century, only to succumb to bad weather, rough seas, the vagaries of fate.<\/p>\n

Now, the maritime archaeologists aboard the Lake Guardian \u2014 experts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, students from the University of Rhode Island \u2014 aim to create detailed three-dimensional computer models of the wrecks, starting with about a dozen ships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They will do so with the help of Rhody<\/a>, a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, outfitted with a high-definition camera that has provided astonishing images on which those models will be based. (On Friday morning, the team began a YouTube livestream, accessible in the link below, of a vessel marked on a previous survey. In an early morning email, the researchers said they were \u201cblown away and stunned by what we have found.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s lifetimes worth of research potential here,\u201d Benjamin Ioset, a NOAA maritime archaeologist, said as the expedition commenced. A native of central New York, he began diving in these waters when he was 14. \u201cI\u2019ve always been in love with this region,\u201d Dr. Ioset said. Now, he is a conduit to that region\u2019s prosperous, industrial past. When the Lake Guardian returned briefly to port on Thursday in order to host a visit from Oswego High School students, he was inspired by the teenagers\u2019 curiosity, their amazement at the secrets buried in the familiar lake. Shipwrecks, after all, belong in the Mediterranean or the Arctic \u2026 don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

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Last week, the Lake Guardian left the port of Oswego, N.Y., preparing to sail into the nation\u2019s past. The research vessel, which belongs to the Environmental Protection Agency, is exploring the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary, a 1,722-square-mile expanse that stretches from the shoreline of New York State to the (watery) border with Canada.There, 63 ships rest beneath hundreds of feet of cold, clear water. Many had sailed in the service of nation-building some time during the 19th century, only to succumb to bad weather, rough seas, the vagaries of fate.Now, the maritime archaeologists aboard the Lake Guardian \u2014 experts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, students from the University of Rhode Island \u2014 aim to create detailed three-dimensional computer models of the wrecks, starting with about a dozen ships.They will do so with the help of Rhody, a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, outfitted with a high-definition camera that has provided astonishing images on which those models will be based. (On Friday morning, the team began a YouTube livestream, accessible in the link below, of a vessel marked on a previous survey. In an early morning email, the researchers said they were \u201cblown away and stunned by what we have found.\u201d)\u201cThere\u2019s lifetimes worth of research potential here,\u201d Benjamin Ioset, a NOAA maritime archaeologist, said as the expedition commenced. A native of central New York, he began diving in these waters when he was 14. \u201cI\u2019ve always been in love with this region,\u201d Dr. Ioset said. Now, he is a conduit to that region\u2019s prosperous, industrial past. When the Lake Guardian returned briefly to port on Thursday in order to host a visit from Oswego High School students, he was inspired by the teenagers\u2019 curiosity, their amazement at the secrets buried in the familiar lake. Shipwrecks, after all, belong in the Mediterranean or the Arctic \u2026 don\u2019t they?We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28422,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28423,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28420\/revisions\/28423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}