Join us in celebrating the 9th annual Ghost Ships Festival March 7th & 8th, 2008 at The Wyndham Milwaukee Airport and Convention Center just across from the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee.

Ghost Ships Festival is a conference devoted to Great Lakes Scuba Diving and Maritime History. Exhibits, workshops, and presentations cover just about every aspect of maritime history and Great Lakes scuba diving. You can listen to and interact with leading dive industry professionals, extreme explorers, maritime historians, and Great Lakes authors! Try your luck at the Ghost Ships raffle. Last year they gave away over $8,000 in raffle prizes!

Click on the video to see our exclusive interview with both Brad and John two of the directors of the ghost ships festival and get a sneak peak into whats new this year!

The Ghost Ships Festival is hosted by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Research Foundation (GLSRF) . They are a Wisconsin non profit (501 (C)(3)) corporation organized for the purpose of furthering public awareness of our Great Lakes marine heritage through education and research, and promoting conservation, study and responsible enjoyment of historic Great Lakes shipwrecks by divers and non divers alike. And remember if you go to Ghost Ships this year stop by the Deep Blue booths for a special log book stamp that will count towards your Dive Challenge.

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Clive Cussler's Search Team to Speak

at Ghost Ships Festival 2008

On Friday, March 7, nationally known and respected underwater archaeologists Ralph Wilbanks and Harry Pecorelli will share their amazing adventure of locating and raising CSS H.L. Hunley, the first combat submarine to sink a ship.  Hunley was the South’s “secret weapon,” built to break the Union blockade of Charleston’s harbor.  On February 17, 1864, after sinking USS Housatonic, the Union’s largest battleship, Hunley and her crew vanished. For 15 years, Clive Cussler’s National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) searched tirelessly for Hunley.  Finally, she was located in 1995 under three feet of silt four miles outside Charleston, S.C.  The sub was raised in 2000 and is housed at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston. NUMA is a non-profit, volunteer foundation dedicated to preserving maritime heritage through discovery, archaeological survey and the conservation of shipwreck artifacts.