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Shipwreck hunter says Coast Guard may have discovered new wrecks

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City
The brig James McBride near Sleeping Bear Point.

Lake Michigan is dotted with shipwrecks, and many of them lay in a stretch of water off the coast of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore called the Manitou Passage. The U.S. Coast Guard recently released photographs showing what some of these shipwrecks look like from a helicopter.

Shipwreck hunter and author Ross Richardson says some of the wrecks photographed may have been previously undiscovered.

Credit U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City
Unidentified shipwreck

Credit U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City
The steamer Rising Sun, wrecked north of Pyramid Point.