GLIN==> News release: Noted explorer to present Great Lakes Seaway Trail shipwrecks June 13

PRESS RELEASE: Use before June 10, 2009
Contacts:   Teresa Mitchell, 315-646-1000; Jim Kennard, 585-223-4500 (hm),
585-770-3156 (cell)
 JPG available: Noted shipwreck explorer Jim Kennard points out the engine
plate on the steamer Morningstar in Lake Erie.

Noted Underwater Explorer Presents Great Lakes Seaway Trail Historic
Shipwrecks June 13 in Sackets Harbor
 
Sackets Harbor, NY (May 26, 2009) -- Noted shipwreck explorer Jim Kennard
will present an all-day program on the ³Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario² on
Saturday, June 13 as part of the 2009 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Experience
Series. Kennard¹s discoveries have received worldwide attention and have
been featured in National Geographic Magazine.

The program at the ³Red Barn² at the Sackets Harbor Battlefield State
Historic Site on Hill Street in Sackets Harbor benefits the nonprofit Great
Lakes Seaway Trail Foundation that promotes tourism-based learning
experiences along the 518-mile-long freshwater shoreline of New York and
Pennsylvania.

The waters of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail hold many of the more than 200
wrecks Kennard has discovered in more than 35 years of diving. Each of his
four presentations on May 21st will focus on a different wreck that Kennard
and exploration partner Dan Scoville have discovered over the past six years
in Lake Ontario.  

The program begins at 10 am and will include presentations on:
³Discovery of the Steamer Homer Warren,²
³The Last Voyage of the Schooner Etta Belle,²
³Discovery of an Early 19th Century Lake Ontario Schooner,² and
³The Deep Water Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario.²

During each program Kennard will present a brief update & short video on HMS
Ontario, a British sloop-of-war that sank in Lake Ontario on October 31,
1780, during the Revolutionary War.  Kennard also be signing copies of the
recently-published book ³Legend of the Lake,² the story of the HMS Ontario.

Since 1970, Kennard has discovered shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, Lake
Champlain, NY Finger Lakes, and Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Using his
background as an electrical engineer, Kennard built the side scan sonar
system that located the shipwrecks.

The 2009 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Experience Series is sponsored by National
Grid, Key Bank Foundation, Town of Hounsfield, New York State Department of
Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Seaway Trail Foundation,
volunteers, and the Dive the Seaway Trail Project. The program fee for the
day-long shipwrecks program on June 13th is $15 or $5/program payable at the
door.

The Dive the Seaway Trail project of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail in
partnership with New York Sea Grant and local communities features
world-class freshwater dive sites for exploring shipwrecks and underwater
landscapes accessed from the byway that is one of America¹s Byways and a
National Recreation Trail.

For more information on the Great Lake Seaway Trail and the Dive the Seaway
Trail Project, visit www.seawaytrail.com or call 315-646-1000. # # #


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