November Gales: A Ric Mixter Lecture

The witch of November has terrorized the Great Lakes since the first Americans paddled the shorelines. These storms wreak havoc on the lakes and bring notorious storms that have sunk the largest freighters lost on the inland seas.

Join us as Ric Mixter shares not only insight and rare survivor interviews from autumn gales, but also first hand accounts of dives to freighters lost to the winds. From his dive to the Edmund Fitzgerald and help in rediscovery of the Carl Bradley to the unique destruction of the Daniel J Morrell and miraculous survival of Dennis Hale, Ric Mixter shares details and underwater footage that you’ve never seen in any other lecture on the topic.

This lecture features many of the wrecks that have been chronicled in countless books. Ric shares what it’s like to dive the shipwrecks-- from submersibles and with SCUBA-- and he brings 30 years of award-winning research to the podium. Included in this are his exclusive interviews with two sailors who took on 126 mile per hour winds during the 1940 Armistice Day Storm. Energetic and knowledgeable, Ric is one of the most requested speakers on the Great Lakes, not only based on his personality but also on his ability to dig for details that other lecturers have missed.