Date: 1863 Aerial shots were taken by helicopter and the acting took place on Cana Island. Its museum has extensive displays of numerous shipwreck artifacts and other lore of the lakes, scale models of every conceivable type of vessel that sank, and even the restored bell of the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald. As we know the story of Poverty Island treasure has been around a long time. That might just be the case for Oak Island, an island off Nova Scotia that's only 140 acres but is home to some incredible findings. Biology, nature, and cryptozoology still remain Brent Swancers first intellectual loves. After the discovery of the bowsprit, a 10-year legal battle with the State of Michigan prevented explorers from excavating the rest of the ship. Beat of luck be safe and careful. Thegroup's search team has discoveredseveral shipwrecks, including that of the 172-foot schooner-barge Atlanta, found just last yearand deemed "still beautiful after 130 years on the bottom of Lake Superior" by society Executive Director Bruce Lynn. There are always five chests, and its always the same scenario., Records of 1863 shipwrecks are well preserved. The Griffon had seven cannons, according to old French records, Kathie said. The Griffin, Mr Libert believes, was caught in a four-day storm. The Our World Underwater Award 2017 On June 16, 2013, U.S. and French archeologists began examining an underwater object first discovered in 2001 near Poverty Island that could be the wreck of Le Griffon, although it will take time to determine if it is even a shipwreck.Le Griffon was the first full-sized European style sailing ship on the upper Great Lakes that was built and commanded by the French explorer Ren . Shipwreck. Will Richard Bennett ever find the Poverty Island treasure? The brief is printed on about 40 pages which would be about 80 pages in a standard book form. They discovered the trunks while pulling up anchor, but before they could get it aboard, the anchor chain snapped and treasure and anchor were lost in the water. Although a lighthouse was eventually built on Poverty Island and put into operation in 1885, for a long time ships were forced to travel during the days and brave treacherous rocks and shoals. Poverty Island is a small island in the U.S. state of Michigan. ON LAKE MICHIGAN NEAR POVERTY ISLAND, Mich. - In a remote part of northern Lake Michigan, divers have started looking at an underwater pit, hoping to find the resting place of the Griffin, a . Most of what you may read in the near future about this subject will be gleamed from a new book that has just been printed. At 3 a.m. on September 19, 1933, a sudden wind blew the vessel onto the rocky shore of Lake Michigan's Poverty Island. You know the house big and very old on Lisbon Do you really think it s there? French archeologists who visited the site at the Liberts' invitation have said they believe the couple is on to something; they even staked a claim for France for whatever wreckage turns up, Steve and Kathie Libert say in their 2021 book, "Le Griffon and the Huron Islands," published by Traverse City's Mission Point Press (about $26in softcover and$35in newly released hardcover). It wasthe first big ship to sail the Great Lakes. and the expenses needed for this type of endeavor.l would welcome a discussion. with Mr Bennett. Body Count Rises on 400-Year-Old 'Murder Island' Shipwreck. Some is better than none, and you sleep well at night. One could hardly walk into a bank with hundreds of pounds of gold and cash it in. We just had a basketball celebrity here in Milwaukee return to his childhood part of the inner city and consul youngsters in following their dreams. Mr Libert hopes to find a cannon, like the above, on the wreck of The Griffin. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. His belief in the treasure has been bolstered by Steve Harrington, a maritime historian, but another historian, Chuck Feltner, debates the veracity of the treasure since there is no record of a ship sinking there despite flawlessly kept records of ships lost on Lake Michigan. Poverty Island is a small island in the U.S. state of Michigan. The heartless tides of Lake Michigan had once again reclaimed the Poverty Island treasure. Richard Bennett, a professional diver and author, has spent more than 20 years and $100,000 of his own money searching for the sunken fortune: Any story that survives 100 years has to have some validity to it. Decades after the 1933 shipwreck and Behrens's death in 1959, Steven Libert, president of Fairport, learned of the legend of the lost gold. In most versions of the tale, the chests, usually said to be five of them, were chained together, making it likely that if one is to find one, they will find all of them. Local talent was used as the story was played out. We are confident the ship was wrecked due to a severe storm. It is available here. The water temperature was a frigid 37 degrees, but . While tug boats draggedthe ship off the rocks, the tug boats' anchors snagged some wooden boxes and the chains that held them together. Shipwrecks [1982/1996] - . Ive always wanted to pull my sidescan around there a bit as it has phenomenal definition. Le Griffon and the Huron Islands 1679: Our Story of Exploration and Discovery was written by Mr and Mrs Libert and published by Mission Point Press in 2021. Spending years building long running, fast boats he could outrun the storm in, once getting to the island from Traverse City area. Up it came, just seconds away, a fortune in gold, when suddenly the chains broke. That s interesting. Sanilac Shores also is the resting spot for the wreck of the Sport, a 57-foot steel-hulled tugboat that sank in a gale in December 1920. Libert discovered what he believes to be remains of the vessel during dives off Poverty Island in 1984 and 1985. It tells a story of one village in rural medieval Japan, following one boy Isaku, as his family struggles to get food essential for their survival. "It started with a junior high teacher, talking about early European explorers. Hopefully they do some side-scan sonar on it and they can get to the Bottom of the story! Had some really wonderful stories coming back from trips where he stared into the Gates of Hell with water walls on both sides and lightning crashing all around. The only way to really find this treasure is to have human beings on the sled visually looking at the bottom. Travel the Great Lakes on a floating mansion with new Viking cruise ships, Report: Recycling in Michigan reaches 19.3%, up 35.4% in 3 years, Want more news like this? Maybe somebody will find that ship someday,'and he touched me on the shoulder.". In order to aid his driven search, he has enlisted the best equipment he can get his hands on, including a fiberglass homemade mini-sub to comb the gloomy depths at the bottom. Pounded to pieces, the ship eventually sank. Bennett is the author of: 1) Deep Quest The Entry 2) The Sunken Treasure of Poverty Island 3) Island of Bones and the award recipient of: The island is within Delta County in Lake Michigan and is home to the Poverty Island Light . The Griffin is believed to be the first ship of European design to sail the upper Great Lakes. Travel with Bennett from the Civil War days to Lake Michigans cold and frigid depths in his decade long quest for the reported $300,000,000 in lost gold. According to the legend, Napoleon Bonaparte was desperate to assist the South during the Civil War. . The ship disappeared with all six crew members and its cargo of furs on its return trip of her maiden voyage that same year. Later, a lighthouse keeper's son, Carly Jessen, watched men on a salvage boat searching for something in the water offof Poverty Island, and the young man bet that it had something to do with the gold. Better to make it known and use the courts to reap a reward. One day, Karl would claim that he had seen a salvage ship out in the water, allegedly excitedly working on dredging something up from the depths, after which the crews could be heard loudly rejoicing, but a storm would come in and sink the ship to send them and whatever they had found back to the bottom. so i thak people shood stop triying and this is my apinyin, i dont beleve this trezer reley egzists and i havint senn iny thing to shaing my mind. Rick Lagina and the team set out on a highly anticipated dive operation to find evidence of a shipwreck, in this clip from Season 9, "The Hedden Truth."Tuesd. "I'm an independent historian, and I thought our patrons would be interested," said Stozicki, who is president of the Rochester-Avon Historical Society. Dimitrios Shipwreck, Mani peninsula, Peloponnese. Its cold. The Poverty Island Wildfire ignited June 26, 2016 by a lighting strike on a 200 square-acre island off Michigan's Garden Peninsula in Lake Michigan. I remember when we were working on raising the Alvin Clark from Green Bay Wisc.someone took our buoy off. In 1984 he found an anchor. During its voyage, the ship was discovered and chased. However, there were those that didnt believe it, and got off their behinds and proved it was curved. May he rest in peace. Or my brother Jim. By some accounts the ship was discovered by Union forces and sunk near Poverty Island, while others say it was dashed upon the rocks while attempting to make a misguided night run, and yet another version says they were attacked by French pirates. The Liberts arewell-known in northern Michigan for their decades-long campaign to find the Griffon, but this week's talk is Steve's first appearance in metro Detroit. | Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, Traveling Back: Witnesses watch bridge lift car, police search for driver, Traveling Back: WWI vets honored fellow doughboys to the last man, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Suddenly, a storm descended on them, almost as if to deny them the treasure. After two years sifting through satellite imagery, Mr Libert found what he believed was the rest of the wreck, and this was later confirmed in a September 2018 dive. Archaeologists have discovered a new communal grave tied to an infamous and bloody 1629 mutiny of Murder Island. Dreamers are also doers, thats also how inventions are born. La Salle and Father Louis Hennepin set out on the Le Griffon's maiden voyage on August 7, 1679 with a crew of 32, sailing across Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan through uncharted waters that only canoes had previously explored. Those have been around since the story broke into the diving industry by Skin Diver Magazine in 1969.