Shipwrecks
Will Lake Erie become a Shipwreck holiday destination?
Ohio state officials, lake historians, and underwater archeologists are taking another tack. They hope to designate an area east of Kelleys Island and three other Lake Erie zones as Ohio's first "underwater trailways" - virtual routes mapped in brochures and Web pages that would guide divers to historic submerged structures.
Other routes would be mapped between Vermilion and Lorain, off Cleveland, and off Fairport Harbor in Lake County.
ODNR has applied for a three-year $220,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to help fund the first phase of the trailways plan. The state will chip in $63,000 if the grant application is successful,
October 24, 2005 7:12 AM | Category: Boats