The Search
- Underwater Archaeology
- Early Discoveries
- Exploration in the 1950s
- 1960 Discovery
- Raising 3 Bateaux
- Operation Bateaux 1963-64
- Bateaux Recovery 1965
- Bateaux Below
- Bateaux on the National Register
- Related exhibit:Raising the Fleet: An Art Science Initiative
- About the banner: The photo shows the south end of Lake George just off Fort William Henry. The historical marker notes the many vessels sunk in the lake by the British in 1758.
Site plan by Bateaux Below, Inc. of seven 1758 "Wiawaka Bateaux" (Image courtesy of John Farrell and Bob Benway / Bateaux Below, Inc.).
Bateaux Below's Underwater Archaeology Study of the "Wiawaka Bateaux"
In 1987, members of the team that became known as Bateaux Below began a multiyear study of seven 1758 bateaux shipwrecks lying in 20 to 45 feet of water. Known as the "Wiawaka Bateaux," these vessels ranged in length from 27 feet 2 inches to 36 feet. Practicing nonintrusive underwater archaeology, each bateau was drawn in plan view and the site plan was constructed.
Illustration of Bateau C, one of the shipwrecks of the Wiawaka Bateaux, drawn by John Farrell following Bateaux Below's 1987-1991 fieldwork at that site (Image courtesy of John Farrell / Bateaux Below, Inc.).
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