New 3D Model Release – Northerner

Just added another Wisconsin schooner to the 3DShipwrecks.org website and database. The Northerner was an 81-foot, two-masted schooner built in 1851 at Clayton, New York by John Oades. It’s a small vessel that doesn’t get much attention in Great Lakes history archives, but its story is still a fascinating one. In 1868, while loaded with…

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  • POW Releases 3D Model of Kingston’s Historic Water Intake Cribs

    Preserve Our Wrecks Kingston (POW) has just published a detailed 3D model of the Kingston Museum Water Intake Crib No. 1, now viewable online through Sketchfab. This immersive model represents one of the wooden crib structures once critical to Kingston’s municipal water intake system on Lake Ontario. Submerged Infrastructure, Digitally Preserved Installed in the 19th…

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  • New NOAA 3D Shipwreck Model Released!

    New NOAA 3D Shipwreck Model Released! Explore the haunting remains of the Banshee — a two-masted schooner built in 1879 as Maple Leaf in Bronte, Ontario. Lost in a gale on October 1, 1924, near Sackets Harbor, NY, the vessel broke apart after dragging anchor in White’s Bay. Today, she rests at 30 feet (9…

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  • New 3D Model Reveals Shipwreck Supply off North Manitou Island

    Title: “New 3D Model Reveals Shipwreck Supply off North Manitou Island” The team at 3DShipwrecks.org has just unveiled a stunning new photogrammetry model of the Supply, a 134 ft two-masted brig built in 1855 as the Curtis Mann and renamed in 1861. The vessel sank off North Manitou Island in 1869 after breaking apart in…

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  • New 3D Model Release – B West

    New 3D Model Release: Lake Michigan’s B West Brings Early Self-Propelled Barges to Life The 3DShipwrecks.org team has unveiled its latest photogrammetry model — the B West, a 100-foot (30.5 m) iron self-propelled lumber barge lost in December 1957 off the coast of Northport, Michigan. This new model, meticulously built from more than 1,100 ultra-high-resolution 30-megapixel…

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  • NOAA Releases Northern Lights Model

    Northern Lights (Daggerboard Scow Schooner, 1899) https://shotlinediving.com/docs/daggerboard-2/ Updated Site & Identification Information NOAA has confirmed the Northern Lights is best described as a daggerboard scow schooner, clarifying an important structural detail that earlier sources missed. Daggerboards were vital for these flat-bottomed scows to sail crosswind, acting like a retractable keel to maintain lateral stability. Vessel…

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  • 3DShipwrecks releases Flora Model

    Discover the Flora: Michigan’s Hidden Fish Tug Wreck  Just 200 yards off Northport Harbor, a forgotten piece of 19th-century maritime history lies beneath the waves—the 45 ft fish tug Flora, built in 1889 in Saugatuck, MI. After changing owners twice, she was abandoned during a storm and sank in just ~15 ft of water. Today, only her boiler, a section…

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  • Corey Featured in Scuba News Canada 10 Jun 2025

    Another stunning shot from Corey gets national attention! Saturday’s dive on the Daryaw in Brockville didn’t just impress the locals—Scuba News Canada took notice too. One of Corey’s images has been featured on their site, bringing national coverage to this iconic wreck and the dive community around it. Well done, Corey—your work continues to shine above (and below) the…

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  • Alida J. Rogers Model Release

    The first 3DShipwrecks.org post of the 2025 season is on Lake Michigan Grand Traverse Bay. We plan to work our way around Lake Michigan this season photographing and modeling as many of the shipwrecks as we can. The 138 ft schooner Alida J. Rogers was built in 1862 in Ohio. Over its 36-year career it…

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  • MUST DIVE #6 — SS North Wind

    “The Last of the Six Sisters” Tucked in the North Channel of Lake Huron beneath the cold, grey veil of the Great Lakes lies the SS North Wind—a steel-hulled package freighter built in 1888, and the final survivor of a once-mighty fleet of six near-identical sisters. At over 312 feet long, she was a workhorse…

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  • Dan Gildea – Scuba News Canada

    Huge shoutout to Dan Gildea, featured again in Scuba News Canada!  This time, Dan takes us beneath the surface to explore one of the most historically rich wrecks in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region: the legendary HMS Haldimand – better known to wreck divers as the North Bay Wreck. Resting in just 8 feet (2.4 m) of water off Carleton Island, this 18th-century British…

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