Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society
Dedicated to Saving our Shipwrecks "From Prevention to Preservation"


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             Please Join us on a 2012 GLSPS Project.             

The 2012 Season has now started. 

Click on "2012 Projects" to See the GLSPS Programs and Projects Schedule or,

click on the "Events Calendar" to see ALL our scheduled events by date!!


Please "Register Now" to seal you spot on a Project

 
You can also click on the link button below to bring you straight to the GLSPS 2012 Programs and projects Schedule.




2012 GLSPS Programs and Projects

 

 

 


Please Scroll Down this Page for More Details on the Next Scheduled Project.



R/V Preservation Work weekends

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Membership Harbor and River Cruise - BBQ


 

 


 


R/V Preservation in the Slip at the Spirit Lake Marina




R/V Preservation on Boat Lift the Day of the Launch

Ready for Another Season of Projects



Launch Day Cruise and BBQ



GLSPS Members Enjoying the Cruise and Later BBQ


For more Pictures of the "2011 Launch and Harbor Cruise", please click on link below


Launch & Harbor Cruise 2011

 

 

The GLSPS has their own research vessel to use as a dive platform to facilitate most of our Underwater projects.  If you have a boat, you know how much work it takes to maintain it.

 


 

The GLSPS would like to invite any of the members, their friends and companions to join us during the two scheduled weekends to prepare the boat for the upcoming season of dive projects.       

Please contact Ken Knutson, (Boat Committee Chairman) or Phil Kerber if you are interested in helping us work on the boat this spring.  Or, to learn more and view the tasks list of what needs to be completed on the boat before it is launched, please click on any of the dated links below.

On Sunday, June 3rd, and after the initial launch and shakedown, any member and their companion / spouse are invited to join the GLSPS for a cruise on the Scenic St Louis River and Duluth / Superior Harbor.  We will be leaving at 10:00 AM and returning at 12:00 PM Noon to join us for a appreciation BBQ for members that join us.  (Bring your camera's)!

 


If you would like to join us in helping prepare the R / V Preservation for the season, please click on the link below to register for the weekend (s) that would work the best for you.  Or, you can also contact Ken Knutson, or Phil Kerber by phone.  Our phone numbers are listed below and on the "Contact Us" web page by clicking on it.


To view the tasks list of items that need to be completed on the boat before launch, please click on the first work weekend below.


R/V Preservation Work Weekend (1st Weekend) - 5-19, 20, 2012

 

 R/V Preservation Work Weekend (2nd Weekend) - 5-26 - 28, 2012

 

R/V Preservation Launch / Shakedown And Member BBQ - 6/3/2012 

 

 

You can also view the GLSPS 2012 Programs and Projects Schedule by Clicking on

"2012 Projects" on left side of this Page.

 

 


 If you have any further questions, please contact one of the below project leaders.


Ken Knutson

Boat Committee Chairman

knutson1@aol.com

612-578-1551



Phil Kerber

GLSPS President

pkerber@glsps.org

612-720-2825

 

 

 

 

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The LSMMA has announced another Entertainment Series. Please read below. If you happen to be in the Duluth / Superior area during the two weeks of these very interesting presentations, please take the time to go see them.

You will be entertained.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

For Immediate Release

May 3, 2012

 

 

 

 

Lake Superior Marine Museum Association Presents

Free May Evening Entertainment Series Programs

 

Lake Superior Marine Museum Association (LSMMA), in conjunction with Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center, has coordinated free May Evening Entertainment Series programs 7 to 9pm in the Visitor Center’s lower level lecture hall, 600 South Lake Avenue in historic Canal Park in Duluth, MN.  Admission is free.  Guest speakers and dates are:

 

Thursday,May 10 – James Stevens “Wildon the Superior Frontier”
Canadian author James Stevens newest publication describes how opening the Michigan State Canal in 1855 impacted history as it brought thousands of immigrants seeking new lives and opportunities to the upper Midwest.  Learn how access by boat in cold aqueous North America challenged captains and passengers with furious deadly weather.  After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to meet the author and to purchase assigned book. 

 

Thursday,May 17 – Tony Dierckins “Lost Duluth”
Tony Dierckins’ presentation is taken from his most recent book “Lost Duluth,” which utilizes over 400 images of vanished homes, buildings, landmarks, industries and residential neighborhoods.  Join the journey and be introduced to people– from hard-scrabble pioneers to wealthy industrialists to impoverished immigrant laborers – whose ambitions and dreams built the Zenith City on a swamp and rocky hillside at the head of the Great Lakes.  After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to meet the author and to purchase a signed book. 

 

LSMMA is a nonprofit organization established in 1973 to preserve the region’s maritime history.  It helps support the Marine Museum at the Army Corps of Engineers’ Lake Superior Maritime Visitors Center.  The association sponsors maritime-related educational and promotional programs and assists in the maintenance and purchase of museum displays.  Informational www.lsmma.com or call Ellen Kramer at218 727-2497.

 

Thank you and hope to see you there.

 

 

 

LSMMA- PO Box 177, Duluth, MN 55801

218-727-2497 - info@lsmma.com

 

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The Science Museum of Minnesota invites you to a very special event in conjugation with the exhibit "Real Pirates"

 MAY 24, 2012


 

 

The History and Recovery of the Whydah

 

 

Barry Clifford Underwater Explorer, Author, and Discoverer of the Whydah will discuss his great find on Thursday, May 24, 2012,7-8:30 p.m. at the Science Museum of Minnesota.


Explore the history of the Whydah, the first pirate shipwreck ever discovered. Underwater explorer Barry Clifford will describe the career of this legendary pirate ship as both a slave ship and a pirate vessel, its wreck in a violent storm off the coast of Cape Cod, and his ongoing work to recover its treasures and secrets, thereby "shedding new light on a lost age."

 

Members and friends of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society can get a discount off of tickets with the code"AQUARIUM."  Call 651-221-9444 to reserve today!

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The UMSAT Show is over and once again, it was another great show.  

 

Thank you to all the folks that attended the show, and special thank you to the Sponsors, exhibitors, speakers and volunteers that made the

2012 Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show great!


We will be adding / uploading content to the website as it becomes available to us.  Please return to this website for more highlights of the show.


To learn more about what this year's show had to offer, please feel free to navigate the UMSAT Show website by clicking on any show logos or, enter the ULR into your web browser www.umsatshow.org


If you have any need for instruction, dive gear, repair services, southern dive trips or charters to the great lakes, please use any of the sponsors listed below.  You can click on their logo on the front page of the UMSAT Show Website.


Please keep your program books you received at the show.  The program book has very valuable information in it that you can use throughout the year. Such as Charter Services, repair services, and equipment you might need in the diving industry.


If you were at the show this year, and wouldn't mind taking a Survey, please click on link button below to let us know what you thought of the 2012 UMSAT Show this year.



2012 UMSAT Show Survey



Congratulations to the 2011 GLSPS Award Winners



The Three Award Winners are:


GLSPS Appreciation Award:  Sharon Provost




Dive Community Award:  Scott and Tracy Wemyss of Air Down There Scuba




GLSPS Special Acknowledgement Award:  Scott Anfinson


 

 


Please Note:  To See more details about the above awards, please click on "Awards" then "Award Winners 2011" on the left side of this website.

 

 

 


 

 

 

Below are the Platinum, Gold and Silver Sponsors of the 2012

UMSAT Show.

 

Please give them the recognition

by

Patronizing their Businesses and Visiting them at their Stores.

 

 

 Please Click on the Logo's Below to Gain Access to their Websites



 

Platinum - Sponsors for the 2012 UMSAT Show 

 


 

 

 

Gold - Sponsors for the 2012 UMSAT Show

 

 

 

 

 Silver - Sponsors for the 2012 UMSAT Show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 If you would like to learn more about the above sponsors or, to be a sponsor of the 2013 UMSAT Show, please click on the show logo above to view the UMSAT Show website or, contact the Show Committee directly.


We have uploaded many pictures of the show to our Photo Page.  Please take a moment to check it out by clicking on this link.  Upper Midwest Scuba & Adventure Travel Show 2012

 

                

 

Thank You for Joining us at the UMSAT Show this year. 

We hope you were Amazed and Entertained!!

 

 

 

UMSAT Show Committee

www.umsatshow.org

info@umsatshow.org

Show Cell 612-516-9070  

 

The GLSPS 2012 Programs and Projects Schedule is now ready for members.

Please take a minute to check out the GLSPS Projects Schedule by clicking on the "2012 Projects" field on the left side of the Website.  If interested in joining the GLSPS on a project, please click on the "Register Now" button in the event description page and fill in your information.  It's that simple!!

 

 

 

 

The GLSPS 2012 Spring Newsletter will be ready Soon!

After you receive an email indicating the Newest newsletter is available.  Please log in as a member,  click on "Documents" on left.  Then find "Newsletters".  Click on "View Documents".  Look for "2012 Newsletter".  Click on "Download".  You will be able to view, download and print a color copy of the Newsletter to take with you.
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News Stories

Please click on "NEWS" (on left) then to News Stories to read an update as to what's been happening in the GLSPS

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Please Come Join us by Becoming a Member

To become a GLSPS Member for the first time , please click on "Member Sign-up" on the left side of this web page, then fill in the (secured) fields and select payment.   It is that easy to become a member!  You can also become a member by clicking on the Button, print form from your printer and send it through regular mail.

 

 

Mail In Membership Renewal Form

 

Website updated Thursday, May 17, 2012

     
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