Adventurers Dive Log: Scuba Diving Port Dover, 17th Fathom Wreck

Diving the 17th Fathom Wreck

Photographs and Story by Tom Wilson

FOUR FLAG DIVE

Type: Shipwreck
Build: Wood
Location: Port Dover, Lake Erie
Depth: 104'
Access: Boat
Level: Advanced





The 17 Fathom is one of the staples of the Port Dover diving scene.

This small schooner has had virtually all of the superstructure destroyed (reportedly by fire) but the hull is still very in tact. Rather well filled with silt it is not possible to penetrate this wreck, but there is still a fair bit to see. A great looking windlass near the bow, hull details, nets, and a debris field that reportedly still turns up new artifacts all make this a worthwhile wreck.

Caution must be taken on this site as it is covered with that fine Lake Erie silt that seems unlike any other substance in the world for its ability to make awreck vanish in seconds after a fin kick comes within a football field of a wreck.


Photographs and Story by Tom Wilson

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