Ralph Wilbanks and the NUMA tram have left Michigan and are headed back home to South Carolina and other areas haveing still not located the wreckage of Northwest Airlines Flight 2501. The elusive DC-4 airliner remains lost and we hope the team will return in 2009 to continue -- and complete! -- the search.
Ralph was again aided by his trusty boat pilot Steve Howard, and this year by Cameron Fletcher from Florida who provided the extra muscle needed to launch and retrieve the side scan sonar fish.
The NUMA team did locate two promising targets this spring. Both are boats, not planes. Divers will check them out soon.
Our thanks as or organization go to Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler and the entire NUMA team for providing this tremendous support for our search for flight 2501. They have covered more square miles of bottom land in 5 years than we could have covered in 15.
Craig Rich
About Me
- Craig Rich
- I am a 36-year veteran Great Lakes master scuba diver, and shipwreck researcher and member of the board of directors of Michigan SHipwreck research Associates -- a group I co-founded in 2001. I am a regular speaker to local groups and historical societies on the subjects of scuba diving and shipwrecks. I also created the MSRA web page which grew from mys personal research into shipwrecks such as the Chicora, Ironsides, Alpena, Andaste and Northwest Flight 2501. My current project is a book detailing the stories of every shipwreck lost off the shores of Ottawa County, Michigan. Entitled "For Those In peril: Shipwrecks of Ottawa County, Michigan", the book will be published in 2008.
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