The Michigan Maritime Museum Hosts Shipwreck’s of Lake Superior Presentation On Sunday afternoon, December 14, at 2:00 p.m., the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven will host Thomas Farnquist, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, speaking to its members and the general public about shipwrecks of Lake Superior. The presentation, held in the Padnos Boat Shed, will feature multi media images and continues the popular off season lecture series featuring authors and specialists addressing interesting topics of Great Lakes maritime history. Mr. Farnquist is an experienced technical diver and is one of the few experts to have visited the wreck site of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Mr. Farnquist will also speak to the wrecks found in the vicinity of Whitefish Point, Michigan, including the Superior City, Vienna, Samuel Mather, John B. Cowle and Comet. Each of the wrecks so close to Whitefish Point have recently been fully measured, documented for posterity and have benefited from state of the art technology now employed as standard techniques by underwater archeologists. Such exploration and documentation is becoming increasingly important as wrecks and associated debris fields are degraded or lost to invasive species. Mr. Farnquist will speak to the profound environmental changes occurring in the last two decades as will redefine the Great Lakes ecosystems. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society was founded by Mr. Farnquist and operates a museum and preserves historic buildings on the national register at Whitefish Point, Michigan. The buildings include a light station authorized by Abraham Lincoln, the Lightkeeper’s quarters, a United States Life Saving Crew’s Quarters and associated out buildings. The general public is welcome and while the presentation is free, donations are gratefully accepted.