GLIN==> Press release: Freediving/Snorkeling Speaker Added to April 13 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Blue Byway Seminar

PRESS RELEASE: April 3, 2013
Contacts: Series Coordinator Lynette Lundy-Beck: 315-646-1000 x203
Diver Sam Genco, cell: 716-490-3778, best times: 10 am, 4pm
Publicist Kara Lynn Dunn, 315-465-7578, karalynn at gisco.net
 
Link: http://www.seawaytrail.com/Press_Room/2013/press130320blue-byway.php
 
Freediving/Snorkeling Speaker Added to April 13 Great Lakes Seaway Trail
Blue Byway Seminar 
 
Dunkirk, NY ­ Freediver Sam Genco has been added to the Great Lakes Seaway
Trail Blue Byway Seminar taking place 9am-4pm on Saturday, April 13, 2013,
at the Clarion Conference Center and Marina in Dunkirk, NY. Genco will talk
about the wide variety of Lake Erie diving, snorkeling and freediving
adventures available to people of all ages and experience levels.
 
Genco is a noted freediver in the Niagara River/Lake Erie area of the Great
Lakes Seaway Trail region that parallels 518 miles of freshwater shoreline
in New York and Pennsylvania. He is a US Coast Guard-licensed Captain and a
former Captain with Osprey Charters out of Barcelona, NY.
 
This is the first time the Great Lakes Seaway Trail underwater history and
tourism program series has come to the Lake Erie region, and the first
program in the series to feature a presentation on snorkeling and
freediving. 
 
Freediving does not involve the use of scuba tanks or other breathing
devices. Genco, who has been scuba diving since 1983, is well-known for his
freediving on Lake Erie shipwrecks that are deeper than some divers have
seen using scuba gear.
 
Other presenters at the day-long event that highlights maritime heritage
travel opportunities along the 518-mile Great Lakes Seaway Trail National
Scenic Byway that parallels Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania, and the
Niagara River, Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River in New York include:
·     Underwater explorer Jim Kennard presenting the details of his
discovery of the HMS Ontario, a 22-gun sloop of water that sank in Lake
Ontario in 1780

·     National Weather Service Forecaster Robert Hamilton speaking on
historic weather conditions on Lake Ontario that influenced the wreck of the
HMS Ontario

·     Historical archaeologist Dr. Douglas J. Pippin, Ph.D., of the State
University of New York at Oswego, providing details on ship building at the
British-held Fort Haldimand on Carlton Island

·     New York Sea Grant Coastal Recreation and Tourism Specialist Dave
White talking about new and future tools and apps for boaters, canoeists and
kayakers based on the Great Lakes Observing System
 
·     St. Lawrence River Charter Captain Jeff Garnsey sharing stories of his
grandfather who was a rumrunner during Prohibition

·     Erie Maritime Museum Education Programs Coordinator Linda Bolla on The
Fabric of Time: Two Iconic Flags from the War of 1812
 
·     Erie Maritime Museum Living History Programming Coordinator and U.S.
Brig Niagara volunteer Ed Bolla presenting The Battle of Lake Erie and The
Building of Perry¹s Fleet.
 
The $50 admission includes lunch; walk-ins, as space allows, $65. Register
online at www.seawaytrail.com/bluebyway or call 315-646-1000 x203.
Pre-registration is requested by April 10, 2013.  #
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