Shotline Diving

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Contribute to Shotline Diving

Share Your Material Shotline Diving is built on shared experience—from divers, instructors, researchers, photographers, and everyone who cares about the underwater heritage of the Great Lakes and connecting rivers. Your logs, photos, notes, and research help refine wreck records, improve shore dive reports, and strengthen the wider Shotline archive. At a glance Credit is applied…

Share Your Material

Shotline Diving is built on shared experience—from divers, instructors, researchers, photographers, and everyone who cares about the underwater heritage of the Great Lakes and connecting rivers.

Your logs, photos, notes, and research help refine wreck records, improve shore dive reports, and strengthen the wider Shotline archive.

What you can share
Submit material
Attribution & permissions

At a glance

  • Dive logs + site notes
  • Photos / video (underwater or topside)
  • Research (archives, clippings, references)
  • Maps / sketches you’ve created

Credit is applied wherever practical using the line you provide.

What You Can Share

Send anything that improves accuracy, access details, or historical context. Clean notes help—but rough field notes are still valuable.

Dive Logs & Site Notes

Details from your dives that refine site records and shore dive reports:

  • Wreck/site name, approximate location, and date dived
  • Depth range, bottom time, and typical visibility
  • Entry/exit details (shore/boat/charter, conditions)
  • Hazards, entanglement risks, navigation tips

Photos & Video

Underwater and topside imagery that helps illustrate wrecks and access:

  • Overall wreck views, key features, close details
  • Shore access: parking, entry points, landmarks
  • Short clips showing layout or conditions
  • Your preferred credit line (name / handle / group)

Research & Historical Material

Anything that ties an underwater site to its documented story:

  • Newspaper clippings, registry entries, reports
  • Archive references, call numbers, or URLs
  • Sketches, diagrams, or charts you created
  • Notes on builder, ownership, loss details, site history

How Your Contribution May Be Used

Material you share may be used to update or create:

  • Wreck records and shore dive reports on Shotline Diving
  • Maps and indexes, including the Master Wreck Index and interactive maps
  • Educational content (presentations, outreach, social posts)

Where practical, we will credit you using the name or credit line you provide (e.g., “Photo by Jane Diver” or “Research notes by ABC Dive Club”).

Submission Checklist

If you can include the items below, it speeds review and reduces follow-up questions:

  1. Wreck or site name (and alternate names, if known)
  2. Location (waterbody, nearest town/launch, coordinates if available)
  3. Date(s) of your dive(s) or research, plus conditions if relevant
  4. What you’re submitting (logs, photos, video, documents, links)
  5. Your credit line (how you’d like to be acknowledged)
  6. Confirmation you have the right to share the material, or that it’s from a public archive you can cite

Submit Your Material

Use the form below to send details about your contribution. For large files (RAW photos, long video, large document sets), include a shared link (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).

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You can also email contributions directly to tom@shotlinediving.com. Please include “Shotline Contribution” in the subject line.

Attribution & Permissions

By sharing material with Shotline Diving, you confirm that you either own the content, have permission to share it, or are providing references to publicly accessible archives. You also agree that Shotline Diving may use the material for non-commercial educational and heritage purposes, including on the website, in maps, and in related outreach.

If anything needs a specific restriction (for example, “web only, no print” or “credit must include organisation name”), please state it clearly in your message.