Historical Society searches for shipwrecks in Lake Michigan

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FOX POINT (CBS 58) – The search is on for hundreds of ships at the bottom of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin, many of them more than 100 years old.

Whitney Martin takes a ride with the Wisconsin Historical Society as crews search for a ship that sunk in the mid-1890’s near Fox Point.

Divers take pencils and paper to the bottom where they draw the vessel and try to recreate what went wrong.

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