A shipwreck hunter discovered the wreck of the Lac La Belle, a luxury steamer that sank in 1872 in Lake Michigan, about 20 miles off the Wisconsin coast, after searching for nearly 60 years. The well-preserved wreck, first located in 2022 and recently documented with dives and 3D imaging, offers historians a rare underwater “time capsule” from the era of Great Lakes passenger steamships. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
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