Historians Hope Underwater Images, Art Will Help Preserve Shipwrecks

Researchers are using remotely operated vehicles to catalog shipwrecks in Lake Superior, with hopes that the images they bring back will help preserve a fragile and deteriorating part of history. With support from a Michigan Department of Transportation grant, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society is cataloging five wrecks, The Mining Journal of Marquette reported recently. "We've done a lot of research related to the shipwrecks, created models, commissioned paintings and taken scores of underwater video and still pictures," said Tom Farnquist, director of the society...