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MSRA Receives Michigan Humanities Grant Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates recently was named recipient of a grant to further its work in shipwreck research, discovery, exploration, documentation and education. The Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the group a grant for their new joint project with the Heritage Museum, (formerly the Fort Miami Heritage Society) in St. Joseph, MI. The two groups will develop an exhibit, curriculum guide, documentary film and hard-cover book. The project, called, "From the Hennepin to the Thousand Footers: The Rise of the Self Unloaders" will tell the story of the modernization of the bulk cargo shipping industry in the Great lakes The lost steamer Hennepin was located by MSRA in 2006 during a sidescan sonar search of the lake bottom off South Haven. The historic vessel, which sank in 1927, lies upright and intact in 230 feet of water about ten miles offshore. Captain Ole Hansen and his Grand Haven-based crew all survived the sinking.
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