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Chicago gets a new artificial reef
On June 19 the M/V Buccaneer was sent to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
The former USCGC Dexter after being transferred to the US Navy as YP-63. Circa 1936-37
USCGC Dexter, was a steel-hulled patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard in commission from 1925 to 1936. Dexter was decommissioned in 1936. She was then transferred to the United States Navy. On June 19, 2010 the Dexter (now known as the Buccaneer) was sank in Lake Michigan as an artificial reef.
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Planning for a new shipwreck began about two years ago, said Capt. Jim Gentile, a scuba diving instructor who led the operation Friday to sink the 98-foot ship, and required approval from a number of agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers, the state Department of Natural Resources, the Coast Guard and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
The entire process, including the cost of the ship, ran about $20,000 and was paid for largely by donations from local divers and dive shops, said Gentile, who also runs Windy City Diving.
His company is among a handful in Chicago that can take divers out to the boat for a fee.
Before crews on Friday pumped the thousands of gallons of water that caused the boat to go under bow first, Chicago had only 11 known shipwrecks -- and only a few of those ships are actually intact
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