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| HMCS Cape Breton |
| Text and photography by John Rawlings |
| HMCS Cape Breton is a veteran of the Second World War, although she never saw action in that conflict. Built in 1944 at the Burrard Dry-dock Facility in North Vancouver, British Columbia, with a design similar to that of the famous “Liberty Ships”, the ship was originally christened as HMS Flamborough Head. |
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| Carl D. Bradley |
| Text and photography by Mel Clark |
| The Carl Bradley was the largest steel freighter on the great lakes in 1957 at a length of 639 feet. Ironically enough, the year she sank, 1958, was the same year the Edmund Fitzgerald (729 feet) was put into service and took the largest freighter of record from the Bradley. |
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| Ghost Destroyer of Truk Lagoon |
| Text and photography by Leigh Bishop |
| The Japanese destroyer Oite is certainly one wreck that is often missed by visiting divers if only due to its location and depth which in around 210-220ft of water is much deeper than the majority of the other wrecks and some considerable distance away for the bulk concentration of tourist wrecks. |
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| Hitlers Blucher |
| Text and photography by Sten Stockmann |
| Hitler’s plan for conquering Norway was simple. The heavy cruiser Blücher would sail into the Oslo harbor, turn its cannons against the royal palace, and Norway would surrender. The occupation forces would then take care of the rest. But things would not go fully as planned... |
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| Ships to Reefs |
| Article by Harvey Schmiedeke |
| The simple “science” of reefing is really nature’s way of recycling. Put a ship (or any object with a positive electrical charge) in the ocean (seawater has a negative charge) and the magic happens. |
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| SS Curb |
| Article and Photography by Curt Bowen |
| The USS Curb was built in Napa, California, by the Basalt Rock Company, and was commissioned as a Diver Class salvage boat for towing and salvage work in the Atlantic during World War II. |
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| Tightrope Walker • WWII's Last Mystery |
Text by ADM staff photojournalist Jeff Toorish • Photos by Jeff Toorish and Rick Marshall
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What we do know is that Unterseeboot 853 is the last German U-boat sunk in a naval battle off the coast of the US.
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| The Curse of Lake Erie |
| Text and Photography by Vlada Dekina |
| She sank in 1930 in a squall that first caused her to list to one side and then roll completely upside down before sinking. I got to dive her in 2006, and could barely believe it when I experienced absolutely no problems on that dive. |
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| The New Tech-Diving Mecca of the Great Lakes |
| Text by Valerie van Heest |
| Over the last decade, Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates, working with shipwreck hunter David Trotter and author/explorer Clive Cussler, has located more than a dozen new deep-water shipwrecks in southeastern Lake Michigan. |
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