The mysterious shipwreck reveals its secrets: the shipwreck may be the oldest in Lake Erie
The mysterious shipwreck reveals its secrets: the shipwreck may be the oldest in Lake Erie
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This Tuesday, September 4, 2018, photo provided by Cleveland Underwater Explorers Inc. shows the wreckage found in the Ohio waters of Lake Erie. Shipwreck hunters and marine archaeologists say that the remains found in 2015 are probably from a ship that sank almost two centuries ago. The discovery would make it the oldest ever found in the lake.
(David M VanZandt / Cleveland Underwater Explorers Inc. through AP)According to experts, a shipwreck discovered on Lake Erie in 2015 may be the oldest found in the famous lake.
The accident was first discovered on a sonar screen by Tom Kowalczk, a member of the Cleveland Underwater Explorers. Subsequent dives to the ship, which sank in the waters of Ohio, have provided new interesting details about the boat. Researchers have also been tracking historical records to get a new perspective on the schooner.
The shipwreck hunters spent eight days this summer unearthing and examining the ship's remains. Experts now believe that the ship is the snake of the lake, which sank almost two centuries ago.
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Built in Cleveland in 1821, Lake Snake carried cargo for 8 years until it sank in late September or early October 1829. It is not clear what caused the ship to sink, although some experts believe it may have been the result of a storm.
This Tuesday, September 4, 2018, photo provided by Cleveland Underwater Explorers Inc. shows the wreckage that is believed to be the lake snake. (David M VanZandt / Cleveland Underwater Explorers Inc. through AP)
That would make the remains of the oldest found in the deepest of the Great Lakes.
The journalistic reports of the time have provided vital clues. On October 8, 1829, the Cleveland Weekly Herald reported that the Lake Serpent had left four weeks earlier to obtain a Put-In-Bay rock on the Bass South Island of Lake Erie. "The newspaper was able to confirm that Snake Lake had loaded the stone into Put-In-Bay, but it had not been seen since," the Cleveland Underwater Explorers noted on its website.
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There is, however, some debate between the marine archaeologists and the shipwreck hunters who are trying to identify the ruin about how confident they are in fact with the Serpent Lake. However, the National Museum of the Great Lakes recently published the results of its investigation on the shipwreck. There are several signs that suggest that the schooner is missing, they say.
The divers determined that the size of the wreck and the stone load point to what is Serpent Lake, and they discovered what appears to be a carving on the bow of the ship, the museum said. Historical records show that the lake snake had a serpent head carved near the front, an unusual feature for a ship of that time.
The site also seems to be close to where the Lake Serpent was thought to be coming down near Kelleys Island off the coast of Ohio.
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Kowalczk said he is pretty sure that the shipwreck is the lake snake because there are enough findings that line up. "We have not found anything that says it's something different," he said.
It was reported that the bodies of the Lake Serpent captain and his brother, Ezra and Robert Wright, were dragged ashore in Lorain County, Ohio, in the first week of October 1829.
Lake Erie is a cemetery of hundreds of boats demolished by violent storms that can arise quickly. Many have been found in recent years by a small dedicated band from the museum and Cleveland Underwater Explorers club.
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The Great Lakes continue to reveal their secrets of shipwreck. Earlier this year, for example, the experts announced the discovery of the 119-year-old shipwreck Margaret Olwill at the bottom of Lake Erie. The wooden steam barge sank during a fire in 1899.
In May 2008, two explorers discovered the British warship HMS Ontario, which was lost on Lake Ontario in 1780. The Ontario is the oldest shipwreck ever found in the Great Lakes and the only British warship of this period that it still exists in the world.
Later that year, explorers, Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville, also discovered a rare 19th century schooner sitting 500 feet beneath the waves of Lake Ontario.
In 2016, Kennard was also part of a team of underwater explorers who discovered the second oldest confirmed wreck in the Great Lakes. The Washington, a US-owned Canadian-owned sloop, sank in Lake Ontario during a fierce storm in 1803.
Robert Gearty and The Associated Press of Fox News contributed to this article.
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