This new second edition of The Great Lakes Diving Guide is the most comprehensive guide ever written about exploring Great Lakes shipwrecks. This 608-page book gives the histories, locations (in GPS and Loran coordinates) and descriptions of over 1,000 shipwrecks. There are more than 1,200 photographs, 175 drawings, many maps and side scan sonar images. 30 historically Significant Events are dramatically highlighted. The book is organized in fifty geographic chapters for easy reference. Greatly enlarged and updated from the first edition, this informative book includes an expanded chapter on The Hunt for Great Lakes Shipwrecks and a new chapter about how to organize and successfully run a scuba dive club. 150+ newly-located wrecks are described in this amazing new edition of this popular book. The Great Lakes Diving Guide represents a lifetime of underwater exploration in the freshwater seas.

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Cris Kohl, according to Ty Sawyer, editor of Skin Diver Magazine, is (quote) widely recognized as the world's preeminent Great Lakes wreck guru....his comprehensive knowledge of this part of the world is nothing short of amazing....(unquote) A prize-winning land and underwater photographer, Cris Kohl has been a scuba diver for over 30 years and has explored shipwrecks in several oceans and all of the Great Lakes. His specialty training includes Full Cave diving certification and he has English degrees and a Master's degree in History. Cris has written more than 250 magazine and newsletter articles, his work being published in newspapers like the Washington Post and the Toronto Globe and Mail, and in magazines such as Skin Diver, Sport Diver, Scuba Diving, Wreck Diving, Immersed, Discover Diving, Diver, and Cottage Life, and maritime journals such as Inland Seas. Cris has taken part in many Great Lakes shipwreck searches, discoveries, identifications, and surveys. His numerous television appearances include being on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and Chicago's CBS-2. A past president of the Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago, he has written 11 books about Great Lakes shipwrecks. He is the 2008 recipient of the Our World-Underwater Lifetime Achievement Award.

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