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From: Craig Rich
Category: Shipwreck Research
Date: 17 Aug 2006
Time: 13:25:05
Remote Name: 63.168.29.210
-- MSRA to Announce Shipwreck Discoveries --
(Holland, MI) – Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates will hold a news conference at 3:00 pm on Friday, August 18, 2006 in the city council chambers of Holland City Hall, at 270 South River Avenue in Holland, Michigan to reveal the results of this year’s shipwreck search.
The MSRA board of directors will be on hand to disclose the discovery of several shipwrecks during the 2006 search season including one from their “six most wanted” list.
No information about these results will be released prior to this news conference.
MSRA is a Holland, Michigan-based, non-profit organization, the focus of which is “Preserving Michigan’s submerged maritime history.” To that end, the organization’s work includes research, discovery, exploration, documentation and outreach. The group operates solely on a volunteer basis with financial support from its board of directors, members, grants and private donations.
For the past nine years, MSRA members have raised funds to conduct side-scan sonar surveys in Lake Michigan in an attempt to locate historic ships and share their stories with the interested public. To date the group has covered approximately 200 square miles of bottomlands and discovered a number of significant shipwrecks including the H.C. Akeley, the S.S. Michigan and the car ferry Ann Arbor no. 5 (rediscovery).
The group’s web site is www.michiganshipwrecks.org.
MSRA is partially funded by a grant from Great lakes Shipwreck Research Foundation.