Overview
- A Canadian team led by Heison Chak documented a largely intact wreck about 300 feet down, including a pristine deck cabin.
- Photos by diver Jeff Lindsay show both masts and even topmasts still standing, an uncommon state of preservation in the Great Lakes.
- Archaeologist James Conolly said construction features point to a vessel from the first half of the 19th century, pending formal dating.
- The site aligns with an "unidentified object" recorded in a 2017 fibre‑optic cable survey and was found during a search for the 1917 Rapid City.
- The team plans to return next dive season to conduct a dimension survey and collect wood samples for scientific analysis.