The Algoma Site
Depth Range: 10' feet to 80' feet
The
Algoma site is located near shore off Mott Island. The mooring buoy marking the site of the Algoma is usually set
in 40' to 60' of water. This allows your boat to be moored a safe distance
from shore, but means a long swim to the main wreckage of the site.
Nothing intact remains of the ship. The stern was salvaged.
Depending on which history you believe, the bow was either also salvaged or
drifted off and has never been found. The Algoma is a site rich in
historic artifacts. It is in a very comfortable
diving depth -- most of the site being less than 25' deep. Near the
mooring you will usually find a piece of the mast, but your best bet is to swim
directly toward shore. There is a hard to locate water tank and a few
pieces of steel out deeper, but the main debris is strewn in the large gorges
and crevices emanating
from the shore. Since the site is so shallow the lake regularly rearranges
the artifacts hiding old objects and exposing new ones each year . Some of
the ships equipment still remains like the mast, steel plates, lifeboat davits,
tools, pipes and valves. Artifacts related to the passengers and cabins
are brass cabin fixtures, pieces of china, tools, and bullets. We have
even seen (and left) a pocket watch and a Canadian quarter. The
Algoma site is like an underwater museum and a remembrance of the lives of the
people that died in the Algoma tragedy. It is illegal to remove any
artifacts from the site and also in very poor taste. Please leave them for
others to enjoy like those who visited the site before did for you.
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