Sunken secrets of the Great Lakes

A view of the wreck of the ‘Philip Becker’, a steam-powered tugboat that sank to the bottom of Lake Ontario on Nov 17, 1879. — The New York Times

THE Lake Guardian slipped out of the port of Oswego, New York, and into the country’s maritime past.

The research vessel, operated by the US Environmental Protection Agency, is surveying the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary – a 4,500sq km stretch of water reaching from New York’s shoreline to the Canadian border.