Press Release

The 10th annual ‘Dive Into the Past’ Twin Cities Shipwreck & Scuba Show

Saturday, February 28, 2009
9 AM – 6 PM at the Mermaid Entertainment and Event Center, Mounds View, MN.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society organizes this event. Featured presentations include: “The CSS HUNLEY,” the first submarine to sink a warship, by Ralph Wilbanks and Harry Pecorelli, divers with Clive Cussler’s NUMA team who found the sunken vessel and “TITANIC’s Last Secrets,” by renowned technical diver Richie Kohler, who dove the famous wreck with John Chatterton in a submersible. Other presentations include: “Rum Running and Red Lights on the Lakes” by talented author and maritime historian Fred Stonehouse; The “Story of the CITIES of SERVICE EMPIRE” sunk off Florida during WWII by U-Boat 128, by technical diver Richard Dreher; “History Beneath the Waves: Shipwrecks and Archaeology at the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary,” by underwater archaeologist and technical diver Russ Green; and “Shipwrecks along Lake Superior’s North Shore,” by diver and author Steve Daniel.

Discover Rebreathers (with Richie Kohler) and free Discover SCUBA, both in the hotel pool are a new addition to the program. Shipwreck diving technique seminars and PSI inspection classes will also be available. Informal presentations will take place during Friday Night at the Movies in the adjacent AmericInn hotel. See www.glsps.org for more information. (Show contact: Tim Pranke 952-381-4669).