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France claims historic Great Lakes wreck
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by Barry Artiste | February 18, 2009 at 06:59 am
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Maritime Law titled "Finders Keepers" is in effect, regardless what France states in their quest to recover a 400 year old ship which sank in US waters in the 17th century.
It is an amazing find after all these years, especially in the Great Lakes, many do not know that the Great Lakes can preserve sunken wooden ships almost to pristine condition as oxygen, cold, and lack of wood eating worms make it an ideal place to recover and document shipwrecks.
Certainly I and many look forward to a Documentary, in the National Geographic if it is ever made.
The Griffon, built in 1679 near today's Niagara Falls, Ont., by French explorer Rene-Robert de La Salle, became the first sailing ship on the Great Lakes but was lost in a storm that year on its maiden voyage. Photograph by: Handout,
Canwest News Service
France claims historic Great Lakes wreck
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 17, 2009The French government has formally moved to lay claim to one of Canadian history's most important shipwrecks — if, as a U.S. relic hunter believes, the 330-year-old Griffon has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
The Griffon, built in 1679 near today's Niagara Falls, Ont., by French explorer Rene-Robert de La Salle, became the first sailing ship on the Great Lakes but was lost in a storm that year on its maiden voyage.
In 2004, U.S. wreck diver Steve Libert discovered remnants of what he suspects is a 17th-century shipwreck at the north end of Green Bay, near the boundary waters of Michigan and Wisconsin.
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at 08:16 on February 18th, 2009
Good Lord! Doesn't the French government have anything better to do than to lay claim to a hundreds-of-years-old shipwreck lying hundreds of feet under the surface of a freezing cold lake thousands of miles away?!!
I dunno, there must be something more important, like oh, let's say maybe something like, for example, fixing the French economy?!!
Debile. C'est n'importe quoi.....
at 14:34 on February 18th, 2009
Peut-être ils ont de l'or sur le navire ? Peut-être les photographies de bébé de Brigette Bardot's sont sur le navire ? HAHA! Merci Frip!
at 16:18 on February 18th, 2009
Le verité est que Sarkozy cherche à détourner l'opinion publique des graves emmerdes dans laquelle la Frace se trouve!! (Oh, et que Carla aimerait bien avoir une excuse pour aller au Canada pour faire les boutiques...).
The truth I tell you!!