2024

map of new mooring buoys

In 2024, the sanctuary installed moorings at 24 shipwreck sites. The moorings facilitate diving and paddling, make for safer diving, and also protect these irreplaceable historic sites from anchor damage.

Facility Strategy report cover

Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast NMS publishes Facility Strategy report. The report takes a community-based and regional approach to developing a vision for sanctuary facilities.
Historic image of steamers in the Manitowoc River in winter.

New Study Opens Window to Cultural Past in Great Lakes Sanctuary

2023

Poster for on-water education video

Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast NMS publishes new video about building on-water education experiences in the sanctuary
Poster for Educators at Sea video

Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast NMS publishes new video on educator at sea experience
Screenshot of boat in sunset from the Story Map page

Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast NMS publishes Story Map on new technology and the search for shipwrecks (link to story map, which will be hosted on it’s own page

2022

group of people at the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuar designation event

NOAA Seeks Applicants for Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council

2021

group of people at the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuar designation event

NOAA announces designation of the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary
a person deploying a auv over the side of a ship

The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries is awarded an Ocean Exploration grant $217,000 for new field research in Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast NMS and the proposed Lake Ontario NMS.
person working on a small boat at dock

Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is awarded a $32,000 grant to install three real-time wind and wave buoys off Two Rivers, Sheboygan, and Port Washington.