LAKE ERIE MOORING PROJECT

                 (Eastern Basin) updated August 3, 2008
Notice to Mariners

Please!!  If you notice a problem with any of the moorings listed below, please notify InfoNDA@yahoogroups.com so we may update the list and perform any repairs
As many of you may be aware, the Niagara Divers’ Association has been involved in mooring shipwrecks in Lake Erie’s Eastern Basin for several years. We have been installing concrete blocks, chain, line and floats on shipwrecks in both the US and Canadian waters. Although we had plans to manufacture approved buoys, we had held off due to lack of funds. At Shipwrecks/2002, Save Ontario Shipwrecks stated that they may be able to help in the near future. They later donated two buoys that year.

$21,000.00

In the fall of 2002, SOS announced they had received a $21,000.00 Trillium Fund Grant to allow them to moor 50 shipwrecks in the province of Ontario. At the February 4, 2003 monthly NDA meeting, guest speaker Jim Friend of SOS announced that the NDA would be receiving five more buoys for Coast Guard approved sites in Lake Erie bringing us up to a total of seven.  All seven buoys were installed in May/ June 2003.

It is the responsibility of the NDA to properly install, maintain and remove each fall. We will also notify the Coast Guard’s “Notice to Mariners” as to the status of the buoys.

As in the past, we will make every effort to continue to moor the shipwrecks in US waters which we have done for the last several years.

The above chart shows the shipwrecks on which we have placed moorings. The targets represent shipwrecks with line and small floats. The small ships represent the Canadian Coast Guard approved sites with concrete block anchors and buoy moorings.