Symbol question: Lake Huron sectional

[David Kazdan]

South side, towards the west, W83 deg 09 min, N45 deg 08 min, just above
the box for the Alpena VORTAC. Is that a shipwreck with mast sticking
up, or what? Seems that the water would be too deep there for a mast to
be visible. I can't remember ever seeing that symbol before. Anyone?

David

Try:
http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/online/pdf_files/6th_VFR_Symbols.pdf

Rod

"David Kazdan" > wrote in message
...
> South side, towards the west, W83 deg 09 min, N45 deg 08 min, just above
> the box for the Alpena VORTAC. Is that a shipwreck with mast sticking up,
> or what? Seems that the water would be too deep there for a mast to be
> visible. I can't remember ever seeing that symbol before. Anyone?
>
> David

[David Kazdan]

Sure enough, page 5, "wreck, exposed." The publication's is pointing
one way, the chart's, the other...

Thanks, Rod.

David

wrote:
> Try:
> http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/online/pdf_files/6th_VFR_Symbols.pdf
>
> Rod
>
> "David Kazdan" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>South side, towards the west, W83 deg 09 min, N45 deg 08 min, just above
>>the box for the Alpena VORTAC. Is that a shipwreck with mast sticking up,
>>or what? Seems that the water would be too deep there for a mast to be
>>visible. I can't remember ever seeing that symbol before. Anyone?
>>
>>David
>
>
>

[Doug Semler]

In ,
David Kazdan > slavered, and posted this:
> South side, towards the west, W83 deg 09 min, N45 deg 08 min, just above
> the box for the Alpena VORTAC. Is that a shipwreck with mast sticking
> up, or what? Seems that the water would be too deep there for a mast to
> be visible. I can't remember ever seeing that symbol before. Anyone?

Ahh...Thunder Bay....quite a few wrecks off there (something like 115 i
think).

BTW: The nautical chart has a RACON at that wreck site, the Nordmeer, and it
sits on a boulder shelf at about 6 or 7 fathoms. The USCG has a lighted
buoy outside the boulder shelf that boats are SUPPOSED to travel outside
of...

From http://michiganshipwrecks.com/thunderbay.htm#Nordmeer:
Nordmeer was a steel steamer that run aground on the rocks. A great deal of
the superstructure is above the water. The hull is still intact and the
engine is in about 40' of water. Next to the Nordmeer also lies a wooden
barge. The wreck is located 7 miles NE of Thunder Bay Island.


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[Steven P. McNicoll]

"David Kazdan" > wrote in message
...
>
> South side, towards the west, W83 deg 09 min, N45 deg 08 min, just above
> the box for the Alpena VORTAC. Is that a shipwreck with mast sticking up,
> or what? Seems that the water would be too deep there for a mast to be
> visible. I can't remember ever seeing that symbol before. Anyone?
>

The symbol means exposed wreck.

[Jay Honeck]

> Ahh...Thunder Bay....quite a few wrecks off there (something like 115 i
> think).

Flying down the Door Peninsula a few days ago, from Mackinac Island to
Ephraim, we crossed "Death's Door" -- the gap between Washington Island and
the peninsula.

It was sobering to think of the hundreds (thousands?) of lives lost in those
treacherous waters, while we flew serenely overhead in a matter of minutes.
Having ridden a boat across that gap -- in November -- (and believing
fervently that I was about to die), I can sympathize with those folks...
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