Shipwrecks

Check our dive schedule! We are diving every weekend and some Wednesday evenings. Please call us at 920-682-6131 for additional information. All boat dives requires a minimum of 4 divers.

Some of our dive destinations are:

 

S.C. Baldwin

 

Description: 160-foot wooden steam barge, now broken up, great exploration dive for small artifacts (not to be taken from the wreck site).

Depth: 60 feet

Location: 2 ¼ miles southeast of Rawley Point just north of Two Rivers.

Loran: 32487.8/48597


McMullen & Pitz Dredge

Description: River dredger with intact crane boom, large cleats, gears, boiler and other machinery.

Depth: 80 feet

Location: About halfway between Manitowoc and Sheboygan

Loran: 32632.7/48746.5

 

Green Can

Description: Fun shallow discovering dive. Rocky bottom, lots of debris from years of shipping. There used to be a dock out there where the ships would load and unload. There are also large clay balls, we think from river dredging, that are fun to explore.

Depth: 20 – 30 feet

Location: At the harbor entrance just south of the green from the green can to U.W. Manitowoc is fun. Approximately ½ mile from shore.

 

Red Can

Description: Fun shallow discovering dive. Across from Green Can. But, the underwater terrain is different. Long clay fingers to follow and find your way back easily. Summer of 2008 found a large ships anchor. Pictures on right.


America

 

Description: Three-masted schooner, fairly broken, mast is still intact

Depth: 120"

Location: 8 miles south of Kewaunee

Loran: 32423.3/48498.8


Crane/LCD (Lower Crane and Dozer)

 

Description: A barge tipped in 1997 carrying a front end loader and crane and a bull dozer (the dozer has been removed) and left lost of debris.

Depth: 130’ making this a very advanced dive

Location: East of Rawleys Point lighthouse


Continental

 

Description: Just the boiler is exposed and some of the wreckage is exposed with the change of the tide and or weather.

Depth: 10’

Location: At the northern end of point beach and can be swam to from shore.


Pathfinder

Description: Three-masted schooner, very scattered wreck.

Depth: 10’

Location: ½ mile north of the continental straight out from an old beach location and can also be reached from shore.

Loran: 32473.5/48552.3


Henry Guss

Description: Fishing Tug that has fallen apart with the boiler, engine, prop remaining.

Depth: 80’

Location: East of the Two Rivers Pier

Photo by: Kim Brungraber
Hinton

Description: Steam barge, boilers are 4’ from the surface. The barge is broken up but the engine propeller and life boat davits and bilge pumps can be seen. There is usually a good number of fish on the wreck.

Depth: 25’

Location: Across from Dairy Queen ¼ mile from shore, not a shore dive.


Hull of a Schooner

Description: There is some wreckage and cable along with the hull.

Depth: 10’

Location: Lying off the first house north of the Gardens. This can be swam to from shore.


Arctic Tug

Description: Boilers and some wreckage

Depth: 10’

Location: Can be swan to from shore

Rouse Simmons

Description: This is the well know Christmas tree ship, aThree-masted schooner, fairly intact with some trees still on the wreck.

Location: Northeast of Two Rivers point.

Depth: 165’ – Not recommended for recreational SCUBA.

Loran: 32437.7/48550.7

 

Walter B. Allen

 

Description: 136-foot two-masted schooner sunk in 1880. This wreck is still very intact with the two masts still upright. This is a very advanced dive because of the depth but well worth the preparation.

Depth: 90 feet to the top of the masts and 165 to the bottom. Most of the wreck can be thoroughly seen at 140 – 145 feet.

GPS Coordinates:
43 49.811
87 36.539