MPR: Mainstreet Radio Special: Lake Superior Shipping and Shipwrecks

Mainstreet Radio Special:
Lake Superior Shiping and Shipwrecks
Midday broadcast from Canal Park Marine Museum on Duluth's waterfront
Hosted by Rachel Reabe
Wednesday October 13, 1999

Hour One: Shipping
Hour Two: Shipwrecks

Hour One - Shipping
Hour One in RealAudio 28.8

If you have a comment or question you'd like to ask of our guests, please send it to us and we'll consider it during the broadcast.

The Duluth-Superior port is the farthest inland seaport in the world and yet one of the premier bulk-cargo ports in North America. The port averages 40 million metric tons of cargo in a navigation season which runs from late March until mid-January. Some 1,100 vessels pass through the port each year carrying primarily ore, coal and grain. We'll talk about the shipping industry and its future in Duluth.
Guests:
Davis Helberg, executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority
Edward Ruisi, ship agent with Guthrie-Hubner Agency in Duluth
Dennis Aho, ship captain who has sailed the Great Lakes for 37 years.

Hour Two - Shipwrecks
Hour Two in RealAudio 28.8

Guests:
Ken Merryman, president and founder of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society.
Patrick Labadie, director of Canal Park Marine Museum, diver and shipwreck expert
Jerry Eliason, shipwreck researcher and explorer.
Dudley Paquette, retired ship captain who was piloting an ore boat on Lake Superior the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank.

Related Links

Duluth Shipping News
Great Lakes and Seaway Shipping
Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society
Minnesota's Historical Shipwrecks
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
Seaway Port Authority of Duluth
Lake Superior Marine Museum Association

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