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- Subject: Circumnavigation Of Lake Superior
- From: IceSci@ix.netcom.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:33:32 -0700
Please circulate this information to members of your organization. Thanks. We are in the final throes of putting together a complete and detailed circumnavigation of Lake Superior and plan to leave sometime around the middle of August. We will be leaving from the Duluth Harbor and will begin the trip by following the south shore of the lake. We will be stopping periodically to videograph points of interest as part of a documentary we will produce after the trip is completed. We will be keeping a detailed ship's log of the adventure as well as graphing a detailed map of the Lake Superior shoreline utilizing a combined GPS system and sonar. We will proceed to circumnavigate the entire lake within one mile of the shoreline, returning to our point of origin sometime in mid to late-September. We will be using a new 36 foot cruiser for the expedition. My crew will consist of myself and a retired school teacher who is a Great Lakes Historian, photographer, videographer, and seasoned mariner. What makes our proposed trip somewhat unusual is that it is multi-faceted. We will be collecting water samples for the Lake Superior Center, we will have a satellite link with the Internet to provide information, daily up dates, and answer questions from school children who will be following our progress. We will be carefully observing and studying the environmental and ecological aspects of the lake in proximity to its' shores for other scientific groups around the lake, not looking for trouble, but rather looking at the overall health of the lake and hopefully being able to, at some point, make suggestions for improving the quality of the lake. No doubt, upon completion of the voyage we will have a great deal of information to disseminate. It is our plan to make our documentation of the circumnavigation of Lake Superior, three dimensional. The first dimension will be by boat in close proximity to its' shore. Then as a licensed pilot I will fly over that same entire shoreline and intermix the airborne video films with those we have already taken from the water. The third dimension will be by land to study and film the shore itself in questionable areas where the ecology and/or environmental factors seem to be at risk. We hope that we will be able to provide information to the scientific community as well as the general public that is new, interesting, and factual regarding many aspects of Lake Superior, its' heritage, and its' health. In view of the information I have just presented. We would like to offer our services to your organization if you have any special issues you would like us to include in our agenda. Please submit your "shopping list" to me at my E-Mail address: IceSci@ix.netcom.com Sincerely Yours, Travis Anderson Travis Anderson Tall Waters Expedition
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