But, then, you have to wonder what the canal boats were doing in the lake when they sank?
Two divers using deep-sea apparatus filmed the wrecks, located some 200 feet down. The identification of the two has not happened but it is believed that the vessels were built in the mid-1800s when the Erie Canal was widened to accommodate larger boats.
Records of the more than 600 Lake Ontario shipwrecks didn't turn up a match for either one.
Jim Kennard thinks that they weer probably being towed when they sank. Both show damage indicating their cargoes may have shifted during fast-changing weather conditions. They were likely older boats whose owners tried to get one more voyage out of them on the lake, which is connected to the Erie Canal by the Oswego Canal.
Mystery Solved? --Cooter
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