other obstacles to support Allied amphibious landings, and the subsequent fallen maritime commandos who have provided this type of support. Special Operator Chief Michael Meoli, USN (SEAL) (Ret.), designed the installation—panels bearing a chronology of the SEAL Teams, the SEAL Code, and portions of the Navy Seal Ethos. Meoli coordinated the monument’s construction, with funding and advice from the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum. The museum’s executive director, retired Navy Seal Grant Mann, said that “The National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum is extremely proud to support and fund this
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The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary
Management of the newest National Marine Sanctuary will be handled jointly by NOAA and the state of Wisconsin. Governor Tony Evers stated, “The designation builds on 30 years of maritime heritage preservation by the State of Wisconsin and will create exciting new opportunities in education, recreation, and tourism in our coastal communities.” The WSCNMS is the 15th National Marine Sanctuary and the second in the Great Lakes (the other is the Thunder Bay NMS in Alpena, MI). It was nominated by a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals at local, state, regional, and national levels, included elected officials, historical societies, businesses, museums, and environmental, recreational, conservation, tourism and educational groups. (https://sanctuaries.noaa. gov/wisconsin/) … A new monument commemorating the fallen members of the US Navy’s Underwater Demolition Teams was dedicated in San Diego on 27 August. The monument serves to honor the servicemen whose jobs it was to swim into enemy waters to destroy explosives and
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On 22 June the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced the designation of the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary (WSCNMS). This 962square-mile parcel of Lake Michigan, encompassing a portion of the waters and submerged lands of the lake adjacent to Wisconsin counties Ozaukee, Sheboygan,
Manitowoc, and Kewaunee, contains 36 historically significant shipwrecks and related maritime heritage resources; 21 of these are on the National Register of Historic Places. Included among the sites are the wrecks of the schooner Gallinipper of 1833 and Home of 1843, Wisconsin’s oldest and second-oldest known shipwrecks to date. There are likely many more wrecks in the Sanctuary that haven’t been located or identified yet, according to archival research. The wrecks of Lake Michigan represent the span of vessels that sailed and steamed on its waters in the 19th and 20th centuries; many are in remarkable states of preservation attributed to the cold fresh water environment of Lake Michigan.
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