King Salmon Fishing Lake Michigan and Searching a Shipwreck Diving 126 Year Old Wreck

In this Impeccable adventure I set out in search of a King Salmon and take a mid-day break to explore the SS Appomattox shipwreck.
On the day of November 2, 1905 the coal-laden Appomattox was bound southward with the Santiago which was also full of coal. They were sailing on the west shore of Lake Michigan.Eventually the pair came upon a thick bank of fog which severely impaired their visibility. Eventually the two vessels came too close to the shoreline and ran aground. Another vessel named Iowa was nearby, and she also ran aground. Some wrecking tugs, a Revenue Service cutter and the crew of the U.S. Lifesaving Service Station were able to free the Santiago and the Iowa in no time at all. Unfortunately the Appomattox went aground so hard that she sustained severe bottom damage; no matter how hard the crews worked, they weren't able to re-float her.
Eventually the weather got worse and worse, and the waves continued to pound the hulk of the Appomattox. The crew of the wrecking tugs and the U.S. Lifesaving Service continued in their effort to salvage her. But the bottom of the Appomattox had cracked in several places, and even though multiple pumps were used, they could not keep the water from entering her hull. The wrecking crews abandoned her on November 15, 1905. In 1907 the Reid Wrecking Company of Sarnia, Ontario removed all of her machinery.