For the divers: Discovering the three largest shipwrecks in the St. Lawrence River

[MiddenMonster]

I never knew the St. Lawrence River was so treacherous, but apparently there are several thousand wrecks on the bottom. In this article, diver/author Sébastien Pelletier highlights three wrecks he considers notable: The tragedy of the Empress of Ireland (1906–1914), SS Bulk Carrier Leecliffe Hall (1961–1964) and the ore carrier MV Tritonica (1956–1963). Only some generic pictures and a video in French about the inauguration of the St. Lawrence Seaway, but the article is interesting:

Discovering the three largest shipwrecks in the St. Lawrence River

Interestingly, all three of these wrecks occurred in foggy weather, and involved collisions with another ship. For some reason, I always thought ships used foghorns to avoid situations like this, but I guess I was wrong...

 

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[njcommercialdiver]

we dove the Empress of Ireland back in the early 90s, it was a cool dive, deep and dark and a decent amount of current. it was so well preserved, guys actually unthreaded the bolts holding the portholes in