Shipwrecks of Sleeping Bear Featured at ISEA Seminar Tuesday

Shipwrecks Off Sleeping Bear Point

Inland Seas Education Association is excited to present Ross Richardson, author, historian, shipwreck hunter and diver as the June Great Lakes Seminar Series presenter. Richardson will explore the legend and history of shipwrecks, including three recently located, uncharted wreck sites off Sleeping Bear Point.

Sleeping Bear Point is in the heart of the Manitou Passage, one of the deadliest stretches of water in the Great Lakes. This area was a threat to any sailing vessel who dared venture between her and the islands just offshore. There lies a graveyard of shipwrecks in the sand beneath Sleeping Bear Point’s treacherous waters, which is where we will go for this seminar.

Where: ISEA’s Education Center

100 Dame St. Suttons Bay

When: Tuesday June 11th at 7:00pm

Free and open to the public

Please contact 231.271.3077 with any questions

Past Schoolship Students/Interns - Where are they now?

Well, here are two of them, hard at work yesterday (note the smiles!).  They are aboard the US Geological Survey research vessel Dragonfly at Leland Harbor, just before departing for a day of sampling and underwater photography related to the botulism problem in this area.  Emma Kelly (left) is a former Young Women in Science participant (and Capt. Tom's daughter) and Emily Tyner (right) is a former ISEA student and summer intern.  Emma is currently enrolled at U. of Michigan in the Program in the Environment and Emily is in graduate school at U. Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Both are summer employees of the National Park Service.  Emily credits ISEA with determining her career path.  Emma blames it on her dad.