Show Schedule
Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society
February 27, 2010 - 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
AmericInn Hotel and Mermaid Entertainment & Event Center.
- 6:30 am setup exhibitors booth
- 9:00 am Doors open to the public
- 9:30 Discover Scuba participants meet in AmericInn Hospitality Room 100 to fill out forms and be briefed.
- 10:00 am “What's Happening in GLSPS” - by Phil Kerber, President of GLSPS.
- 10:00 Discover Scuba in the Hotel pool from 10:00 to 12:00
- 10:30 am “So Terrible a Storm” author Curt Brown presents the epic tale of the sailors and ships caught in Lake Superior’s brutal Thanksgiving Day storm of 1905.
- 11:15 am “Lady Elgin: Titanic of the Great Lakes” Join marine historian and author Brendon Baillod as he explores the history, mythology and archeology of the legendary and tragic Lake steamer Lady Elgin.
- 11:30 am Discover rebreathers, participants meet in AmericInn Hospitality Room 100 to fill out forms and be briefed. Please pay the $75 fee at the GLSPS booth before.
Discover Rebreathers in the pool from Noon to 2:00 pm.
- 12:00 PM Lunch Break, Box lunch in the exhibitors area
Lunch sign exact same as last years (Note Refreshments available 10:00 to 6:00 this year)
- 1:00 pm Mooring a Shipwreck 101 class participants will meet in the AmericInn Hospitality Room 100 at 1:00 pm. Please pay the $10 class fee at the GLSPS booth before.
- 1:15 pm “Where is the Polly?” the history of the Russian Built gunboat Politofsky, Alaska’s Yukon River Steamboat Graveyard, and updates on this season’s search, by shipwreck explorer and researcher Randy Beebe.
- 2:00 pm “The salvage of the Juliett” Back by popular demand, Retired Navy Diver 1 Glen Milisci tells the story about the salvage of a Russian war class submarine.
- 3:00 pm Break, Silent auction final bids before closing
- 3:15 pm "Top 3 Diving destinations in Micronesia" presented by Myron Haynes owner Northland Divers.
- 4:00 pm Silent auction ends
- 4:15 pm “Spear fishing in South Dakota” Caleb Gilkerson find out a new way of fishing.
- 5:15 pm Raffle and Silent Auction – pick up prizes
- 6:30 pm Show ends - Exhibits close