Great Lakes Underwater Mapping

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Great Lakes Observing System

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Effort to map bottom of Great Lakes could reveal location of hundreds of shipwrecks: "There's a lot we don't know"

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The Great Lakes Observing System wants to map every meter of the lakes' bottom.

The effort will pinpoint hundreds of underwater shipwrecks, illuminate topographical features and locate infrastructure.

Only a fraction of the Great Lakes' bottom has been mapped, and those low-resolution charts were completed decades ago .

A map would help ships avoid submerged hazards, identify fisheries and inform erosion, storm surge models.

In July , the wreck of the Margaret A. Muir schooner was found off the coast of Wisconsin .

In April , the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society announced the discovery of, which sunk to the bottom of Lake Superior with no survivors on May 1, 1909 .

Time is of the essence to locate shipwrecks because many of them become encrusted with invasive species.

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