{"id":47482,"date":"2025-11-29T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47482\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:36:14","slug":"lake-erie-shipwreck-uncovered-by-strong-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47482\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie shipwreck uncovered by strong winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca?_guid_iss_=1&amp;exception=true&amp;homecity=CAON0289\" class=\"sc-2491f6ff-0 iXbDqB\"><img data-testid=\"sponsor-image-contentful\" alt=\"\" url=\"https:\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/CuCvzS518MqRDfW3j6oLY\/4bc852b9c25dc1ad0cdcbdd03de002d0\/CBC_News_-_Light.png?fm=webp&amp;q=80\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100\" height=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:100%;height:auto\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CBC_News_-_Light.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published on Nov. 28, 2025, 12:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>By Thursday morning, water had re-covered the wreck<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/severe\/photos-severe-snow-squalls-disrupt-travel-across-southern-ontario\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strong winds<\/a> that prompted an Environment Canada alert this week have laid bare Lake Erie shoreline not often seen.<\/p>\n<p>But they also \u2014 briefly \u2014 uncovered a rarely-seen shipwreck.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Vermette is the owner of The Dive Shop in Kingsville, Ont., and was out for a walk Wednesday night when he spotted something from afar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just really cool. I saw some birds sitting on a structure. I thought, oh, maybe it&#8217;s an old dock or something, right. And as I got closer, I said, \u2018no, that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s definitely a shipwreck.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/nature\/outdoors\/more-than-a-third-of-canadas-drownings-happen-in-the-colder-months\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More than a third of Canada&#8217;s drownings happen in the colder months: Saftey tips<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was about 150 metres out from shore, and about 51 metres long, Vermette estimated, also noting it\u2019s a schooner because of the distinct \u201cskeleton\u201d of the wreck.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he scuba dives often, it was a wreck he\u2019d never seen, and there are many on Lake Erie. Vermette estimated at least a couple hundred, though there are maybe 20 or 30 that are commonly known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Nov. 28, 2025, 12:30 PM By Thursday morning, water had re-covered the wreck Strong winds that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,94,8875],"class_list":["post-47482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-history","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}