6/11/2009 If you are in the Great Lakes area this weekend and are into shipwreck discoveries you may want to check this event at the Red Barn in Sackets Harbor. Jim Kennard will be presenting on the shipwrecks Homer Warren and Etta Belle amongst others.


Explorer to present talk about shipwrecks Saturday in Sackets

SACKETS HARBOR — Noted shipwreck explorer Jim Kennard will present an all-day program on the "Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario" at 10 a.m. Saturday as part of the 2009 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Experience Series. Mr. Kennard's discoveries have received worldwide attention and have been featured in National Geographic Magazine...

The full article can be read here from the Watertown Daily Times.

6/4/2009 This story broke today and has had a lot of coverage over the internet. I'm not sure where I stand on this one. The treasure was Spain's even though they stole it from the New World, but on the other hand they have had 200 years to find it and did nothing about finding it.



TAMPA, Fla. – Florida deep-sea explorers who raised an estimated $500 million treasure from the 200-year-old wreck of a Spanish galleon should give all the loot back to Spain, a federal magistrate judge said.

But the two-year tug-of-war over the 17 tons of silver coins and other artifacts from what is believed to be the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes y las Animas is likely far from over...

Click here for the rest of the article on Yahoo News