Spend a day exploring shipwrecks and maritime History. This year's program includes both fresh-water and saltwater presentations.

Saturday, March 2, 2002
11 am -- 6 pm
Roseville Area High School
1240 County Road B2 West
Roseville, Minnesota

Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students, and $3 for children 12 and under. Tickets are available at the door or in advance.

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Roseville Area Lodging

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There will be a raffle and silent auction to help raise money for important GLSPS preservation projects.

Tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00.

Raffle Prizes include scuba equipment, GLSPS merchandise and more. The silent auction will include a new dry suit, Lake Superior fine art prints and other items.

David Cooper

David Cooper is park archaeologist and chief of resource management for Grand Portage National Monument at Grand Portage, Minnesota. Cooper received his undergraduate training in history and archaeology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Warwick in England. He also holds an MA from East Carolina University's program in maritime history and nautical archaeology.
Cooper's archaeological field experience ranges from early medieval sites in Britain, to Caribbean shipwrecks of the Spanish Colonial period, American shipwrecks from the Revolutionary and Civil War periods, and Great Lakes shipwrecks from the 1830s to the 1950s.
Prior to his work with the National Park Service, he served as state underwater archaeologist for the State of Wisconsin from 1988 to 1998. While there, he directed underwater archaeological surveys on Lake Michigan, at Green Bay, and in the Apostles Islands.
From 1993 to 1994, Cooper also served as underwater archaeologist for the US Navy on special detail to the Naval Historical Center in Washington, DC.

Rich Dreher

Rich has been diving since the age of 14. He has the honor of being the second youngest instructor ever certified by PADI.
Rich is a serious tech diver and has traveled to many of the world's exotic dive sites. Next year, it will be cave diving in South America.
Rich owns and operates Scuba Dive and Travel in Minneapolis.

Chris Kohl

Cris Kohl has spent his life around water, whether crossing the Atlantic Ocean by ship a number of times, or exploring his beloved Great Lakes in his sailboat or powerboat. He has taken and taught Power Squadron classes for safe boating. An intrepid explorer, he has spent time scuba diving on hundreds of shipwrecks in three oceans and all five Great Lakes during the past two decades. He has Master of Arts degree in History, specializing Great Lakes Maritime History. A prolific writer and prize-winning under water photographer, Cris Kohl's work has appeared in the Washington Post, Immersed Magazine, Diver Magazine, Discover Diving Magazine, Great Lakes Cruiser Magazine, Inland Seas and many others. A popular speaker at scuba shows and history conferences, he has often been interviewed on radio and television. The most recent of his nine books are Titanic, The Great Lakes Connections and The Great Lakes Diving Guide. Raised in Windsor, Ontario, he now resides with his wife and partner, Joan Forsberg, in West Chicago.

Pat Labadie

Pat is a Detroit native, diver, historian, and paraprofessional archaeologist. He studied at the University of Detroit College of Engineering from 1958-1960. From 1960-1968, Pat worked as an exhibits technician at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit. He was the director at the Saugatuck, Michigan, Maritime Museum from 1968-1972. In 1972, Pat was a tug master for the Gaelic Tugboat Company of Detroit. Pat was the director of the Canal Park Marine Museum in Duluth from 1973-2000.
He has also conducted archaeology field work with NPS/SCRU from 1981-1989, and later at Apostle Islands and Pictured Rocks.
Pat was the Marine Historical Society of Detroit's Historian of the Year for 1979, the Lake Superior Magazine Distinguished Person for 1999, and currently the principle consultant for Superior Historical Research.

Todd Mathies

Todd is co-owner of one of Minnesota's oldest and most respected dive stores. He is also an accomplished videographer. His videos range from tropical locations to the Great Lakes.
Todd is an OWSI instructor, master scuba diver trainer, PADI IDC staff instructor, and holds over 12 specialty instructor ratings.
He was one of the founding members of the Crow Wing County dive rescue squad and an authority on the Cuyuna Mines near Brainerd, Minnesota. Along with two friends, he started the Beanie Buddy Map Company. It has introduced the first accurate and detailed dive maps of the Cuyuna Mines.

Brendon Baillod

Brendon is an avid marine historian, researcher and collector of Great Lakes books and ephemera. A certified avocational underwater archeologist, he holds memberships in the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association, the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History, the Wisconsin Marine Historical Society and the Great Lakes Historical Society. He is the creator of "Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Shipwrecks: Algoma to Kenosha," a directory of over 700 historical wrecks derived from newspaper and vessel enrollment microfilms and is soon to release "Pentwater Shipwrecks," a directory of historic losses in the Oceana County, Michigan area. Brendon's other works include a complete inventory of historic shipwrecks in and around Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. He is the creator of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Research website and has published numerous articles in Inland Seas and Soundings. He is a Director and co-founder of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Research Foundation, which hosts the annual Ghost Ships Festival in Milwaukee. Brendon holds degrees in Psychology and Management Information Systems. He is employed as a Sofware Engineer specializing in Enterprise Java Systems Development.