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The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery

TIGHAR is a non-profit institute dedicated to sound historical investigation, responsible aviation archaeology, and genuine historic preservation.

Canadian Aviation Historical Society

CHAA Aircraft Recovery Team

Our Society is the world's premier organization dedicated to the preservation of Canada's diverse aviation heritage. A resource for aviation history in Canada.

Vintage Wings of Canada not only keeps alive the memory of those airmen and airwomen who have gone before us—their aircraft and their stories—but also the skills, techniques and tools to maintain, restore and even build these extraordinary machines from scratch. Vintage Wings of Canada is a not-for-profit, charitable organization with a collection of historically significant aircraft and is run entirely by volunteers. It is our mission to acquire, restore, maintain and fly classic aircraft significant to the early history of powered flight in Canada, focusing largely on the aircraft of the Second World War.

Aviation archaeology is a recognized sub-discipline within archaeology and underwater archaeology as a whole. It is an activity practiced by both enthusiasts and academics in pursuit of finding, documenting, recovering, and preserving sites important in aviation history. For the most part, these sites are aircraft wrecks and crash sites, but also include structures and facilities related to aviation. It is also known in some circles and depending on the perspective of those involved as aircraft archaeology or aerospace archaeology and has also been described variously as crash hunting, underwater aircraft recovery, wreck chasing, or wreckology.

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Underwater Sculpture

Gardens created with coral and other ocean life covering (eventually) an artist's sculpture.

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Lake Ontario’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’

The odd thing about this is that Hugh Cochrane has been reported as deceased and also to never have existed at all. Not the first time someone who has written about the mysterious and unexplained has been a fake name, or something like that.

Dubbed the Marysburgh Vortex, or alternatively “The Graveyard of Lake Ontario,” the small stretch of water off the shores of Prince Edward County has for centuries played host to shipwrecks, airplane mishaps, strange sightings and mysterious disappearances.

Global News has identified at least 270, and as many as 500, ships that met their watery end in this part of the lake. And at least 40 planes have met a similar grisly fate in and around these shores — a far higher concentration of shipwrecks and plane crashes than can be found in the famous Bermuda Triangle in the North Atlantic Ocean.

...mysterious tales from the eastern shores of Lake Ontario that are documented in Hugh F. Cochrane’s 1980 book Gateway to Oblivion.

“The locals were aware of the strange stories that came out of this area,” says Picton-based storyteller and author Janet Kellough.

But it was Cochrane who came up with the name: the Marysburgh Vortex.

The Vortex is generally thought to encompass the eastern part of Lake Ontario, bounded by Prince Edward County on the west, Kingston to the east, and Oswego, N.Y. to the south.

Global News - ‘Strange things out there’: Inside Lake Ontario’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’