Have you swam any OW where you could see the bottom? Where was it and how deep was it? What was down there? See anything interesting?
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When I trained at Van Wagners beach in Lake Ontario we would swim a little ways off shore. We would see the ribs of a sunken wooden ship.
In December, the schooner ALBERT of Detroit, was driven ashore at Van Wagner's Beach. At daybreak the following morning, a local farmer sighted the ice-covered wreck with seas crashing over her. Mounting his horse, he spread the alarm and Col. Van Wagner took charge of the rescue operation which was accomplished by two men pushing a small boat along planks, laid on the heaving shore ice, until it floated. Each time that two of the schooner's crew got into the boat, it was pulled back to shore by the farmers and fishermen gathered there. In this way, all hands were saved.
I believe it sank in 1876???
As for wild life we would go to Hanrahan's Bar they advertised 60 strippers.
When I trained at Van Wagners beach in Lake Ontario we would swim a little ways off shore. We would see the ribs of a sunken wooden ship.
In December, the schooner ALBERT of Detroit, was driven ashore at Van Wagner's Beach. At daybreak the following morning, a local farmer sighted the ice-covered wreck with seas crashing over her. Mounting his horse, he spread the alarm and Col. Van Wagner took charge of the rescue operation which was accomplished by two men pushing a small boat along planks, laid on the heaving shore ice, until it floated. Each time that two of the schooner's crew got into the boat, it was pulled back to shore by the farmers and fishermen gathered there. In this way, all hands were saved.
I believe it sank in 1876???
As for wild life we would go to Hanrahan's Bar they advertised 60 strippers.
