Carrie sowden is the director of archeology for the National Museum of the great lakes. This is not her first time in erie. We actually learned about her when she was speaking here about the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald before. Shes an amazing speaker. She has dove and Research Vessels all over the world, but she spent the last 17 years really focusing on wrecks here in the great lakes. Shes a graduate of texas a m, us marine archeology program, which is really the preeminent Maritime Archeology program in the country. So were were thrilled to have carrie and as a sort of extra announcement for all of you, as was cspan and that contact got us and heard carrie was presenting and theyre actually covering this evenings lecture to be broadcast nationwide. So great exposure for this topic and. Carrie could talk about a lot of different topics, but we chose this one because its its really unbelievable. How does a 338 foot long steel ship sink in the most shallow of the great lakes and just
Carrie sowden is the director of archeology for the National Museum of the great lakes. This is not her first time in erie. We actually learned about her when she was speaking here about the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald before. Shes an amazing speaker. She has dove and Research Vessels all over the world, but she spent the last 17 years really focusing on wrecks here in the great lakes. Shes a graduate of texas a m, us marine archeology program, which is really the preeminent Maritime Archeology program in the country. So were were thrilled to have carrie and as a sort of extra announcement for all of you, as was cspan and that contact got us and heard carrie was presenting and theyre actually covering this evenings lecture to be broadcast nationwide. So great exposure for this topic and. Carrie could talk about a lot of different topics, but we chose this one because its its really unbelievable. How does a 338 foot long steel ship sink in the most shallow of the great lakes and just