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From: runderh409@aol.com
Category: Shipwreck Research
Date: 13 Sep 2004
Time: 23:06:00
Remote Name: 152.163.100.7
We used to dive it in the 70’s when it was too rough to dive the Ironsides. The club that I belonged to salvaged one of the capstans and placed in front of a dive shop in Grand Rapids. The brass capstan cover had melted in the fire. The ship caught fire while getting worked on a Johnson Boiler works in Spring Lake. They cast it adrift, and it blew over to the other side of the channel where it burned to the waterline and sank. Our nickname for the wreck was the razorblade! The ship had a steel inner frame, which now litters the wreck area. The corroded edges could easily slice the wetsuits of that era. I lost my enthusiasm for the wreck after getting pinned under one of those steel beams. In the total black of Spring Lake and silt bottom, I swam right into a steel trap. I never dove it after that day. Robert Underhill