Dive Club Details: Save Ontario Shipwrecks(Windsor Chapter)
Tag: sos
Date: 1995/11/04
Club Name: Save Ontario Shipwrecks(Windsor Chapter)
Building: Windsor Yacht Club
Street: Riverside Drive East
City: Windsor
Country: Canada/Ontario
Meeting Schedule: Meetings are held on every Second Tuesday at 7:00
pm. Check theURL below to confirm!
Membership Fee: $35/year, ($25 Provincial SOS Membership dues
+ $10 Local Chapter Dues)
General Information: Save Ontario Shipwrecks is a province-wide Marine
History and Archaeologyorganization. SOS Windsor
conducts side-scan sonar searches ofthe Western
Basin of Lake Erie each summer. We have located
over70 known wrecks and have yet another 45 sites
that conatin man-mdedebris but have not be confirmed
as wreck sites. The membershipconsists of about
25 members who are dedicated to preserving andprotecting
Ontario's marine history. This summer, the chapterconducted
am archeological survey class taught by Peter
Englebert,the head marine archaeologist for the
province of Ontario. Variouschapter members have
located mnay wrecks and wreckage sites. The president
of our chapter is John Karry, who is working closelywith
the town of Leamingston and the Province of Ontario
in settingup an underwater dive park and preserve
called Erie Quest, Shipwrecksof the Pelee Passage...