Film crew accidentally discovers 1800s shipwreck off Lake Huron in Ontario

Bruce Peninsula divers find 1800's shipwreck by accident while filing documentary on invasive mussels.
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[@MrDiveDave]

As a Canadian Scuba diver I can assure you the amount of wrecks in the great lakes is unbelievable. Over six thousands missing vessels and only over two thousand have been discovered. I am lucky enough to live in one of the greatest areas in the world for wreck diving. And a night dive is even more amazing to come across a sunken vessel in the middle of the night is quite a feeling.

[@nsnopper]

I had to give up diving as I don’t have the health anymore. Yes, the wrecks are magnificent to visit. I envy you.

[@miapdx503]

True, the Great Lakes are littered with shipwrecks. From the time they began to sail the Lakes there have been wrecks. Everyone has heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but it's just one of thousands. Some of them are absolutely heartbreaking. Especially when there were no survivors.

[@deepdivedelight]

Do you know why so many sunken boats? That is because the lake is more dangerous than the sea. That is because the lake needs special designed boats. This is because the waves aren't the same vs the sea, rhythm and space between waves re different.

[@nsnopper]

@@deepdivedelight And, unlike being at sea, a ship cannot stay ahead of the storm, because it runs out of water to traverse and encounters land.

[@MrDiveDave]

@@nsnopper Also I heard and have found it to be true myself that very strong storms can form very quickly and come out of nowhere. It still happens today with modern weather forecasts, imagine depending.on the Farmer's Almanac only? One time diving in Tobermory we went down with decent weather a little overcast and came up to six foot swells and pounding rain 30 min later.

[@PTron96]

Once in a while, we actually see something nice/cool on the news

[@allytrudie864]

It’s a weird creepy feeling when a ship wreck comes into view when you scuba dive and you know it’s there- I can’t imagine how much creepier it would be seeing one on a dive you were not expecting. You can’t describe the feeling of approaching these things in the silent deep water. It’s quite the feeling.

[@JenniferPChung]

Yah I used to have mixed feelings about it. But I have only drove in ships that have been sunk to create artificial reefs. I think knowing that it's an actual shipwreck isn't for me.

[@thebigpicture2032]

They were using an ROV but still creepy indeed

[@frenchonion4595]

If that thing was loaded with gold i still don't know if i'd go down there lol

[@thebigpicture2032]

@@frenchonion4595 I’d go but I’ve been trained to wreck dive. Stopping the impulse to scream and spit your reg when a body part floats by is the hard part.

[@50hellkat2]

That is amazing. Relatives from generations of the men lost will be thankful.

[@cliffnelson1174]

Amazing how well preserved it is..

[@flick22601]

Yes it is but, I suspect it won't be that way for very long. Divers will pick it apart to have a memento of their dive. If they could, it would be covered with graffiti in short order.

[@tomp8871]

My thoughts exactly. Hope it stays that way.

[@greggreg2263]

Pretty awesome. That boat looks very nice condition preserved in that cold water.

[@JenniferPChung]

Wow!!!! Incredible! It looks like it's in great condition. Weiiiirddddd that they live in a place that names after the captain.

[@johnbrown303]

That is a great find and great for the community there.

[@lab35982]

The joy of finding a wreck in cold fresh water. You would not be so fortunate in a salt water sea.

[@apextroll]

Maybe without of all the water filtering going on with the mussels, they wouldn't have seen it otherwise.

[@phatphat7089]

Really surprised at the clarity of the water!

[@OntarioAtOrion]

Zebra mussels? I remember learning about how bad they were, and it was because of the St Lawrence seaway lock system or something?

[@joshb6470]

I lived in Windsor back in the 80s, the smell they cause to the water was beyond terrible for a young nose

[@dfirth224]

Ships carry water for ballasting. As they load the ships they go lower in the water, needing less ballast water.

[@OntarioAtOrion]

@dfirth224 the lock system along the st Lawrence River allows ships to enter the great lakes from the Atlantic Ocean via the st Lawrence. The locks allow them to travel up to the higher land.

[@DC9417]

Ocean going ships are now to change their ballast water in the ocean (salt water) when entering the St. Lawrence system. The salt water kills foreign species. Unfortunately I think this practice started after many invasive species had are entered the system.

[@joetanaka6446]

Congratulations on your find!

[@wuhanflu9936]

Are they terrified of saying "Georgian Bay"?

[@janetveres3316]

Pretty sure I heard “west of Tobermory “, which wouldn’t be in Georgian Bay.

[@jamesedwardsiii8532]

That is so cool! What a find!

[@zstanojevic]

Tobermory, "the scuba diving capital of Canada" .. yet, it took two filmmakers to accidentally discover this 128 year old shipwreck just off the coast .. hahahahaaaaa

[@erbewayne6868]

My parents neighbors had a cabin there many years ago.

[@Marxistsrcnts]

Great Story!

[@robertmorris7209]

Great story, Scott!

[@tjyb1502]

What a neat story!! That's fantastic!

[@tylerkelly9801]

Those ppl are incredibly lucky to be able to make a living doing crap like that, searching for invasive mussels, and living in a beautiful place like the Bruce peninsula. Absolutely ridiculous

[@timmorin69]

and my dumb ass has been out here drywalling and mudding houses for the last 25 years... 🤦🤦

[@bananian]

Born in the right place

[@BenCoombs]

Amazing what an education will get you.

[@BenCoombs]

@@nancypelosi480 so you’re not in Congress?

[@terryl.cooper]

@@nancypelosi480 A PhD in what? Having a doctorate doesn't guarantee you a living if it's in something frivolous.

[@getplaning]

And it's COVERED in invasive mussels.

[@frogdogink4415]

Well Done Guys! 🙋‍♀️

[@StanParkes-tj8wz]

WOW WHAT A FIND!

[@mrozboss]

Great find

[@Sherrill965]

This content is so flippin cool.

[@delavan9141]

I think you mean, "off Ontario in Lake Huron" LOL.

[@SB-qm5wg]

Looks like the mussels are holding it up

[@elmerkilred159]

Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you

[@jackofallgames3097]

Helluva nice scrap find

[@sharonlounsbury1098]

In excellent shape!!!

[@WilbertRobichaud]

Are those all invasive muscles?

[@terrypikaart4394]

I think the zebra muscles are holding that ship together!.

[@skinny1968]

Zebra mussels. Wow. 😢

[@JoeThornFreedom]

Seriously?? 4 days and you haven’t fixed the title yet? Here’s the quality of information providers we have in Canada. You can’t find a shipwreck off Lake Huron in Ontario. You can however find a shipwreck off Ontario in Lake Huron. Hell, I’m dyslexic, and even I know the proper way the English language is supposed to be structured. I guess when your news agency is subsidized by Canadian tax dollars, being accurate in the words you choose doesn’t really matter, because you’re gonna get paid regardless.

[@RobertSmith-gu7qo]

Gotta love the lack of editorial processing. I would have have thought the ship was found in the lake off of Ontario. As written the ship would appear to have been found on land. Maybe in someone's garage.

[@TrueStrongNorth]

How far down?

[@atomicwedgie8176]

To the bottom.

[@walterpleyer261]

There's also a Lürssen Shipyard in Germany, specialized in Superyachts

[@normlor]

WITH DEEP PENETRATING RADAR I THOUGHT ALL GREAT LAKES WOULD HAVE BEEN SCANNED DECADES AGO???!!!!

[@ronblack7870]

funded by you?

[@Laakona]

It isn't "Off Lake Huron". It's IN Lake Huron.

[@HalideHelix]

Lol....she's so excited

[@lukerankin4681]

I miss the rains down in Africa.

[@Bbbuddy]

She seems almost too gleeful to be talking about such a tragedy.

[@doghouse416]

I know .....right,..too soon?

[@BaronVonHardcharger]

Getchu a guy that looks at you like this gent looks at his lady.

[@rockyevans1584]

Lol he looks slightly disgruntled to me

[@dianedenham5259]

​@@rockyevans1584: ikr?! She's so beautiful and animated, I'd wished he was smiling in admiration at her as she was speaking. 😀

[@diablabokchoi]

WoW 😮Great DISCOVERY GUYZ❣️👊🏾💥👍🏾😎

[@johnduchamre3406]

Shout out Bruce County!

[@chopperking1967]

Hey he's part of the cast of the reimagined, 2006 Series Battlestar Galactica! For a few episodes.

[@WilbertRobichaud]

which episode?

[@MissEAG]

Is the ship covered in the invasive mussels too?

[@schmingusss]

I was thinking the same. Can't They make cat food or something with these mussels?

[@veronica368]

@schmingusss 😂

[@amyfu2047]

@@schmingusssi imagine they could but harvesting them would be very expensive.

[@bar8393gm]

Yes it is. Pretty much entirely. They are *everywhere* in that lake and river system. I don’t think they eat the wood, but probably do harm it in some way by attaching. Their benefit though is that they clean the water by filtering it. (source: am a Great Lakes diver).

[@darkzak47]

Taking a wild guess that it’s around 70 to 100 feet deep. Would have been nice if they mentioned how deep it was

[@Matt-fl8uy]

Probably withheld specifics to reduce the risk of divers playing tourist at this pristine wreck.

[@atomicwedgie8176]

The depth goes all the way to the bottom.

[@deant6361]

So cool

[@donatospoony]

Wow,

[@CanadianPranks12]

I guess i shouldnt have studied that guy LOL

[@MrBonediver]

Looks like the mussels are very invasive!!!!!!

[@barnyardbrio7597]

so badass

[@looneygardener]

Wow Serendipity!!!

[@attilakonkoly4329]

It's not a coincidence!

[@CoolBreezeHeals]

Awesome.

[@jimclarke1108]

Beautiful eyes Yvonne🥰

[@Teigerzon]

Do the invasive mussels eat at the wood, if not, would it help preserve the ship?

[@ronblack7870]

the ship is metal

[@welkcubnairb1478]

Awesome

[@wendyponsford7428]

“…a steamship that SANK…” not sunk.

[@Blisscent]

COOL AF!

[@oldjarhead386]

How is this wreck “off Lake Huron”?

[@galewinds7696]

How can the ship albeit wrecked be off lake Huron? It appears to be in the lake on the bottom.

[@noneofyourbusiness3553]

For it to be off Lake Huron, it would have to be on shore somewhere.

[@CraftAero]

...or hovering above.

[@nsnopper]

You beat me to commenting on this. As a former Great Lakes shipwreck diver, I used to dive IN Lake Huron, not off it.

[@2painful2watch]

Under Lake Huron?

[@amyfu2047]

Off the coast of….

[@CraftAero]

In the vicinity of...

[@vandos11]

zero fish on it

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Very cool :)

[@HM2SGT]

*Looks like that thing's coated in mussles*

[@jeromedamian5740]

I'd actually like to see their footage on their muscle research.

[@mikeroullier6875]

Any valuables found?

[@UQRXD]

There a many undiscovered wrecks all over the world. We still know so little about this planet yet go into space to a life less moon and planet Mars. If we in dead have ever have.

[@Connorangel00]

Africa !

[@liberatetutemeexinferis5902]

It could be a tomb. Leave it alone.

[@Jon.......]

"Off" Lake Huron or "In" Lake Huron? TD

[@jasonconrad7664]

Off Lake Huron in Ontario, or off Ontario in Lake Huron?

[@user-ot7ph9yt6t]

Did they find the LPC on board?

[@presterjack9764]

Longmont potion castle?

[@markhammar3977]

He meant lsd.

[@rayray8687]

A bit off topic but I’m curious why these zebra mussels aren’t thought of as a natural resource instead of an invasive species? Anyone know?

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

They're not just an invasive species. They're a harmful invasive species. Nothing eats them and they filter everything out of the water so nothing else can live there. You can see the rocks on the bottom fifteen feet down in places where your hand would disappear a few inches below the surface. On Lake Simcoe, they die off in the winter and pile up on the beach in drifts a couple of feet high. It stinks. They're also not useful for anything except possibly grinding up for fertilizer, and there are easier and cheaper ways to get raw materials for that.

[@Bull-cat741]

AWESOME.... We Michiganders live in the BEST STATE.... The other 49 states are pretty cool too 😎

[@TheShottyBoys]

Looks like a transport ship where you carry soldiers on it from one land to another.

[@alelectric2767]

Cool

[@garyhebbard85]

Reporter needs to learn the difference among sink, sank, sunk!

[@johndc2998]

This was news 2 weeks ago.

[@Beechnut985]

I wonder if it is full of coal ? At $ 350 a ton that would be a fortune.

[@rayray8687]

Of course there’s the couple of million it would take to get it out of the ship,and delivered, lol. But maybe still cheaper than getting it out of the ground?

[@jamesedwardsiii8532]

You sure it's not the wreck of the SS Serendipitous Discovery?

[@AgxntOrange]

Her eyes make me uneasy ngl

[@THT01]

Sweet.

[@user-bm4qf2ox1f]

Thats actually my boat thanks for finding it

[@russchadwell]

Now plunder the Africa's coal!! Thar be coal in da hold!!!!

[@onan5247]

This country is collapsing 😅

[@user-nw4ln6gr5v]

The government should reimburse every citizen. It's absolutely unforgivable that they didn't find it sooner. Does the Canadian Government even know what is happening on the boarders? Protect your citizens. It's litterally your only job as a government

[@dougtheslug6435]

Lol....ya ok, reimburse them with what, surprised you didn't say it's Trudeau's fault too.

[@johnwattdotca]

@@dougtheslug6435 I could blame both Trudeaus. I used to know Doug and The Slugs.

[@hottubking1229]

*borders *literally

[@onlyontfish3784]

What ? None of what you said makes any sense

[@amyfu2047]

😂😂 what are you even talking about???

[@WilhelmFreidrich]

So what? I found a toonie the other day.

[@hyjacker]

1900s

[@austing7254]

1895 is not the 1900s.

[@hyjacker]

@@austing7254 what century is it then?

[@hyjacker]

How is a century defined? A century is a period of 100 consecutive years, e.g., the period from 1600 to 1699. This time period can be referred to in one of two ways: as the 1600s, or as the seventeenth century or 17th century

[@austing7254]

@@hyjacker Yes, thank you for telling me things I was already well aware of. You're not helping your case at all. It is currently the 21st century because we don't call the years 0-100 AD/CE Century 0, we call it the 1st Century. 1895 = 1800s because it's within the years 1800 to 1899 = 19th century.

[@tanjaluk7907]

No such thing as coincidences, everything happens for a reason!

[@acerjuglans383]

There is no grand scheme in Life. Every day is a roll of the dice. Nothing happens for a reason.

[@Olddeadleadfoot]

Kewl! 🙂👍