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Two filmmakers shooting a documentary about invasive mussels discovered a 128-year-old shipwreck that sunk in an 1895 snowstorm in Lake Huron.
TOBERMORY — Over the past 20 years quadrillions of invasive mussels have been sucking the life out of the Great Lakes. They’re trapping nutrients, the basic building blocks of life, on the lake bottom. Without nutrients, organisms of all kinds - from the tiniest plankton to the largest fish - are vanishing. In Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Ontario, vast offshore areas have become “biological deserts,” heralding one of the biggest changes to the Earth’s freshwaters in 10,000 years.
Husband and wife team, Yvonne Drebert and Zack Melnick, who specialise in underwater videography, were filming a documentary when they made the discovery
Husband and wife team, Yvonne Drebert and Zack Melnick, who specialise in underwater videography, were filming a documentary when they made the discovery
A documentary crew filming an upcoming feature about the ecological impact of invasive mussels in the Great Lakes has unraveled a 128-year-old mystery with the discovery of a previously unknown shipwreck near the Bruce Peninsula.