The Search
- Underwater Archaeology
- Early Discoveries
- Exploration in the 1950s
- 1960 Discovery
- Raising 3 Bateaux
- Operation Bateaux 1963-64
- Bateaux Recovery 1965
- Bateaux Below
- Bateaux on the National Register
- Related exhibit:Raising the Fleet: An Art Science Initiative
- About the banner: The photo shows the south end of Lake George just off Fort William Henry. The historical marker notes the many vessels sunk in the lake by the British in 1758.
Carl Dunn, an early 1950s SCUBA diver, retrieves a colonial artifact from the bottomlands of Lake George for the Fort William Henry Museum (Photograph courtesy of Carl Dunn).
1950s Underwater Exploration
Beginning in the early 1950s, local SCUBA enthusiast, Carl Dunn, dived in Lake George for the newly formed Fort William Henry Corporation. Dunn reported seeing rocks sitting on top of a sunken vessel, probably a colonial bateau. Soon thereafter, the emerging popularity of SCUBA (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) brought divers to Lake George and other shipwreck discoveries eventually followed.
SCUBA diver Carl Dunn holds a cannonball during early 1950s diving off Fort William Henry (Photograph courtesy Carl Dunn).
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