This is a wonderful piece of history, imagine actually being able to walk around this and look at her in some museum! Almost unbelievable that her masts and parts of the rigging have survived..

The lifeboat beside the ship tells you how quick it went down.

I wish they would show inside the ship

I think its really (kind of annoying) the way the reporter (keeps interceding) in the middle of (sentences).

Sad the loss of the crew, but it is an underwater work of art. Thank you

This was an intriguing find! I never considered that ice build-up could cause a ship to sink - but it makes sense! If a power line can accumulate ice, bend, and then break in an ice storm, I can imagine the impact of such a storm on sails, rigging, deck, and cargo. Thank you for sharing your discovery.

Wow! This is such a cool story! It needs to be a movie. The news channel also did a great job covering it. I am glad that gave us detail instead of the typical 90 second fly by.

Considering how old this ship is, it’s actually in amazing condition

Incredible! Thank you for sharing this story of our Great Lakes!

Looks intact enough to refloat.......patch the few holes refloat get it into a dry dock clean it real good. And put it as a piece of museum atrifacts

There are over 6,000 ships that cover the bottom of five Great Lakes with over 300 deaths, the latest being the Edmund Fitzgerald and her 29 man crew on November 10, 1975.

I'm from Manistee and I have a lot of old photographs of the Manistee river in town I have a photo of this ship

the fact that it was perfectly preserved is amazing

Just gonna throw this out there, I don’t like this editing at all. It’s so choppy with the narration.

This needs to be brought up .... breathe life into it again!

Imagine the family's surprise when researching the WC Kimball, after reading the family history, this report told the story of what may have happened to my husband's great, great uncle, Charles Cyrus Kehl and his schooner. In the Kehl history, written in 1966, it was speculated that the WC Kimball was run down by a passing steamer. The pictures of the schooner tell a different story. "Stove-in" bunches of shingles came ashore after the disappearance. The only other things fully identified as coming from the schooner were a cap belonging to Charles Kehl and the trunk of a young Norwegian immigrant on his way to Northport to join family, identified by letters found inside, written by his uncle.

This is just truly amazing. It’s like the intact ship was frozen in time, waiting to be discovered.

Somebody ought to raise that ship & restore it to full function. That would be incredible to see.

The salt it was carrying probably helped preserve it as well

Oh great. Here’s an historical wonder. Let’s drop an anchor on it.WTF.

This would’ve been a lot better if Ray Romano didn’t butt in every two seconds

I Love these stories about any Great Lake Ship

More than a few in michigan that can dive that, and there's is lots of preserved wrecks in the great lakes I have dove on several as preserved as that or more so

Absolutely beautiful! Please preserve!

Awesome video guys and I only have 1 bitch I noticed an anchor at 3:31 stuck into the side of the ship and that is a very big No No because if everyone else did that there wouldn't be much of a ship left. I thought all divers knew this. Otherwise what a freakin great find. Congratulations guys

That would be such a scary experience. They did such an awesome job. Hope the families now have some answers too.

Wow... that was a pretty well put together and presented report. It was short and pretty much to the point without a lot of fluff and wasted gab time. And it came as no surprise that they were hauling cedar shakes and salt from Manistee which produced vast quantities of both way back then.

Very interesting story and quite spooky. The lifeboat next to the ship tells me they weren’t able to use it.

Very cool!! RIP to those lost!!🙏

This interesting story was ruined by the constant interruptions with the half assed narration

I love our beautiful Lake Michigan

What an awesome story. Thank you.

It's so perfectly preserved, makes me wonder if it can be raised and saved in a museum. If you don't understand how ice can build up and possibly sink a ship, watch Deadliest Catch. The crews often have to break up the ice on their ships so they don't capsize and sink under the weight.

Wow she is in a near perfect condition. It wouldn’t surprise me that if they were to raise her and gently patch her that she’d be sea-worthy once more.

Great story. Thank you.

You should also check out the LR doty one of the most preserved wrecks in the great lakes I was even lucky enough to meet the people who discovered it

This makes me feel breathless

But if ice is less dense than water, how did it sink?

Ah ha!! That's where I left my anchor. 😂

Way cool. Good job guys.

👍🏼 very cool video

How cool is this !

Being born, and spending all of my 52 years in Toronto, I have grown up on the Great Lakes my entire life, I’ve discovered some amazing finds, but this one beats them all, absolutely spectacular! I’ve never seen a wreck so perfectly intact, it’s almost unbelievable, congratulations gentlemen, absolutely amazing find!

great story, thanx for sharing.

WOW that amazing that that boat stayed in almost perfect condition for that long

No where else on earth can you see man mad objects made hundreds of years ago untouched and unchanged that's what draws me to shipwrecks. I've researched shipwrecks in the great lakes for over 30 years but I've never been to the great lakes.

That's amazing!

I worked at Burger Boat in Manitowoc, and they were around since the 1860's. Wonder if they made that boat? We lived in the Point Beach area at the time, and used to pick up coal and other items from the ships that sunk there when walking the beach. Lots of ships went down in that area.

I have a picture that has been passed down for a few generations of my great great great grandfather coming home alive on a ship covered in ice in Milwaukee Wisconsin

Good story great find!

Good story great discovery!👍

*What a sad story, but it is good that they found it.*

Awesome 👍

Ok so there was four crew members aboard, who were these men? And who is the source of the historical information? There must be more to this story.

Love the music!!!

Can I go to.... What an adventure !

Truly amazing to see it sitting perfectly upright masts and all

Can it be raised? That would be really cool, and a nice museum piece!

Who's anchor is that near the mast. Their vessels anchor or one that got stuck from someone else

What time period is it from

That is fascinating

Wow the reporter crudely cut in audio really ruins the vibe of this story.

What a beautiful ship it was

I wonder if the barrels of salt might have fogured into its slow sinking to the bottom

Did they find any cool skeletons?

Fascinating

Would it be worth raising?

Ted Perry is my favorite night person on fox 6

Outstanding 👻🎩

How beautiful

Is there footage of them going inside it? I want to see!

its wood is less rotted than the titanic's decks, and its older than the titanic

If she's complete with its masts upright, it is because it sank vertically and touched the bottom by the keel, so I guess it was overloaded in Gambler mode, with a very low waterline , then all you need is a rogue wave and your boat goes completely through the bottom in an instant, keeping it intact because it arrives on the bottom in roughly gliding flight. Because in this lake, indeed there is an astronomical number of wrecks from all eras and in all states, but the Schooner in particular are wooden ships, they are "fragile" the majority of the wrecks are broken up in a thousand pieces, the masts lying on the side, gutted hull, some have had their deck torn off or broken into several separate pieces. Many of these ships and their crews do not even have time to throw the dinghy into the sea, because next to the majority of them lies the only one rescue boat on bord . Which means that the majority of these crews perished in these shipwrecks and the worst is that the majority of them were immigrants, the area was known to employ this type of personnel because they were not very qualified and therefore payable at a minimum, their identities, their lives and who they were or where they came from have all been lost swallowed up by the lake, which does not return its dead; as everyone knows and worse, keep them almost intact even after several centuries under water mummified by the conditions particularly poor in living organism necrophrages in the depths of the latter, keeping everything intact like in a big freezer.

That's wicked awsome

Can you restore that

For the crew, what a sad way to go.

Did they find any bodies or proof that the bodies are partially intact inside the lake

Nice video.but it's sad that the lifeboat was resting on the see floor.i knew when I first saw it that everyone parished..

I’m struggling to understand how wooden craft can sink - especially the lifeboat, although it was probably fastened to the ship...

Okay. Great theory. But where is the ice now? I don't see any on the vessel.

Wonder if it had any cargo.

There's a wrecked yacht lost from the 20's in Lake Michigan and the hull alone is worth over $1,000,000!

I had no idea Lake Michigan's water was so crystal clear

Nice.

Wow. She's a beautiful ship even at the bottom of the lake. What a wonderful find.

grew up in Omena. funny to hear "Northport"

It’s only 100 years old?

oh if we could just drain the lakes and especially the seas, what a sight that would be, a liquid junkyard of history!!

Oh , there’s hundreds of boats in the Great Lakes !

@ 1:28, "the radar images".

Lake magician

Epic

Bring it up!

It's a schooner!

So Ice Sink it so that means there’s is No Holes so all you need to do is Pull it Up take the Water out of it and then you may have a Floating Shipwreck

Do they have plans to bring it up out of the water?

there are two chests in the bottom one with a bunch of garbage one with the treasure map

Hey Ben put a sock in it so I can hear the hunters and experts talking.

Ice floats!

did you know there was a massive ship battle in lake Michigan in the 1800's