Divers from the University of Hawaii's Marine Option Program measure and map out an unidentified vessel. The craft was found during a survey of sunken World War II-era wrecks in the waters close to the shore of Makena in Maui, Hawaii. Dunnottar Castle Shipwreck (Image credit: NOAA National...
The plane Lusardi is trying to recover is a Bell P-39 that went down in Lake Huron during a training exercise in 1944, killing Frank H. Moody, a Tuskegee airman. TheTuskegee Airmenwere a group of Black military pilots who received training at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during Worl...
There is evidence of scour around the shipwreck which likely comes from large wave events from winter storms. Monthly climatological significant wave heights for Lake Huron suggest that typical winter storms contain far higher wave heights than anything observed in summer 2015 and could be responsible...