Shipwreck Hunting in the 1980s

[Marcel Bubbles]

Is the shipwreck of a wooden sailing ship?

I was thinking it would be wooden... although, as @diveplam points out, a steamship would make more sense in terms of creating an environment that tangles a bunch of fishing lines. Maybe something like this?

Explorers discover 1850s steamship in Lake Ontario

The Bay State is the oldest propeller driven steamship found to date in Lake Ontario.

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[sirwilliam]

Rex Cowan devloped land magnetometers to search for shipwrecks,

Your name sounds very familiar to me.
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