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New Members: CLUE would like to welcome three new members to the CLUE family: Elizabeth Wantz, the Curator and Director of Century Village Museum and specializes in historical research, Mallory Hass, a terrestrial and underwater archaeologist who is currently a Senior at Cleveland State University, and Cindy LaRosa, a long time CLUE associate that specializes in underwater survey assistance and oral histories. Welcome aboard! |
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Latest Discoveries: CLUE is pleased to announce its latest discoveries, the brigantine Sultan and a wooden "dump barge". The Sultan foundered in a fierce storm on 24 September 1864 shortly after leaving Cleveland bound for Buffalo, NY with a load of grindstones, lumber, and barrel staves. The remains of the Sultan, originally discovered by an associate of CLUE, Rob Ruetschle, are very intact and an exciting find. Please visit the new Sultan shipwreck page and be sure to read Kevin Magee's dive report for more detailed historical and dive site information. FOX 8 news in Cleveland did a very nice story on the Sultan. You can view it at http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-shipwreck-the-sultan-ss-txt,0,4761414.story The "dump barge" was discovered last year during one of CLUE's many side scan surveys. It is an unidentified wooden barge approximately 140 feet long with eight separate, hinged, bottom-discharge compartments. Of the numerous shipwrecks in Lake Erie, this barge appears to be the only example of this type of vessel discovered to date. All-in-all a unique and interesting discovery. See the new "dump barge" page for more information. |
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Captain Kidd: Dave VanZandt has been asked by East Carolina University Assistant Professor Lynn B. Harris to independently assess the plausibility of the identification of a shipwreck discovered off the coast of the Dominican Republic. The wreck has been tentatively identified as the long sought after East India Company's merchant ship Quedagh (Cara) Merchant, which was taken as a prize off India by Captain Kidd. Dave will be utilizing the VanZandt Historic Shipwreck Identification
Method (VHSIM) that he developed to analyze the available historical
and archaeological data relative to the postulated identity. |
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Costa Rica: CLUE is in the early planning stages for shipwreck and archaeological survey work in Costa Rica. Stay tuned for further updates. |
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