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VERGENNES, VT — The research and archaeology team at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is making Lake Champlain’s underwater world accessible to the public.
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An effort to create a new recreational diving site by sinking an old ferry in Lake Champlain has been sunk.
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Adirondack, built in 1913 and measuring about 152 feet long, is said to be the oldest double-ended ferry to continue to operate in the country, according to the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development. The boat would have been scuttled and added to the Lake Champlain Underwater Historic Preserve.
“This was a once-in-a-lifetime type of opportunity,” Jonathan Eddy, manager and co-owner for Waterfront Diving Center, based in Burlington, told Boston.com. “It was a historic vessel, and that’s one of the reasons why we wanted to save it.”