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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). |