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Grave Robbers of the Great Lakes

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Uploaded by on Feb 18, 2007

The bones of the crew from the shipwreck of the Superior City are explored by a diving group called the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. Watch them remove a wedding band from a skeleton for display in their museum.

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  • The wedding ring was illegally removed from the Superior City's wreck in 1983. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) seized the ring and other artifacts from the Superior City in a 1992 raid on the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The DNR's Affidavit of Search Warrant is available via a link on the Maritime Artifact web page of whitefishpointwatch. The wedding ring is on display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum as a loan from the State of Michigan.

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  • You know, where I come from, we call this sort of behavior Grave-Robbing, and the people who do it are called Ghouls! And that's JUST what happened here!

    A disgraceful, shameful act!

  • What a bunch of pigs. Would you dig up a corpse on land and remove a wedding band? What disrespect!

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  • @twigsta agreed

  • @justicefmprice I must agree with you. sad as it seems, but the truth nonetheless.

  • I really mind hearing about people going down and looking at these wrecks, as long as they don't touch anything, or take anything but pictures.

  • Ah, jeez...all you people place too much stock in sacred ground.

    Nothing is sacred anymore, not in this day and age, and not for the future.

    The days of innocence are gone, and the more people propogate the worse it's going to get.

    As well..nothing lasts forever.

    Use your heads.

    You think a hundred years from now your plot will be safe, or 10,000, or even in 4.5 billion years when the sun goes nova?

    You're just another life form in the universe, and nothing special.

    Get over yourselves.

  • @twigsta

    Excavations of such ancient graves provide scientific knowledge, and the families of those interred people are long gone anyway. Big difference between uncovering a mummy, and messing around with somebody's late grandpa.

  • @Sodiumreactor Yeah I agree or the remains brought up and then autopisied and anything on the remains should go to the FAMILIES!

  • @twigsta those are different from that because we see the history of the pyryamids.

  • I can't BELIEVE any human would pick up a leg bone, a skull, remove the wedding ring!! Disturbing!! The only good that can come of this is awareness to what other cultures go through when we disturb their grave-sites!!

  • A despicable action, but how is it any different from the excavating of tomb artifacts and sarcophagi for museums?

  • theres no way should be handling someones skull.you moron.

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