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Scuba Divers in a police patrol boat prepare to dive into waters near Georgian Bay s Snake Island as they continue to search for drowning victims. Ten(...)
Scuba Divers in a police patrol boat prepare to dive into waters near Georgian Bay s Snake Island as they continue to search for drowning victims. Ten(...)

Scuba Divers in a police patrol boat prepare to dive into waters near Georgian Bay s Snake Island as they continue to search for drowning victims. Ten(...)

Date7/24/1972
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  • Scuba Divers in a police patrol boat prepare to dive into waters near Georgian Bay s Snake Island as they continue to search for drowning victims. Ten(...)
  • Scuba Divers in a police patrol boat prepare to dive into waters near Georgian Bay s Snake Island as they continue to search for drowning victims. Ten out of 12 persons in an overloaded 14-foot motorboat drowned Sunday on their way to a campaign vacation. The boat capsized in choppy waters about a mile from the island. None of the boat's occupants were wearing lifejackets. The 18-foot-long police boat-bigger than the boat that capsized-has a capacity of eight people.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Scuba Divers in a police patrol boat prepare to dive into waters near Georgian Bay s Snake Island as they continue to search for drowning victims. Ten out of 12 persons in an overloaded 14-foot motorboat drowned Sunday on their way to a campaign vacation. The boat capsized in choppy waters about a mile from the island. None of the boat's occupants were wearing lifejackets. The 18-foot-long police boat-bigger than the boat that capsized-has a capacity of eight people.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000275F
      GeographyCountryCanada
      Geography
      GeographyCity, town, twpGeorgian Bay (Ont. : Township)
      GeographyCountySimcoe (Ont. : County)
      Geography
      GeographyGeographical FeatureSnake Island (Ont.)||Simcoe, Lake (Ont.)
      GeographyHistorical locationsMidland (Ont.)
      GeographyNeighbourhoodMidland (Georgian Bay, Ontario)
      Geography
      GeographyProvince or StateOntario
      Geography
      Chilly work: Volunteer divers like Hanna Pilar have spent hours in the frigid waters of Georgian Bay working to restore the deteriorating wreck, which attracts 7,000 visitors a year
      Chilly work: Volunteer divers like Hanna Pilar have spent hours in the frigid waters of Georgian Bay working to restore the deteriorating wreck, which attracts 7,000 visitors a year
      Spremo, Boris
      11/5/1982
      Image shows police divers plunging into the water.
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      Goode, Jeff
      2/2/1972
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      Inventors: Makers of a device that lets scuba divers ascend in water at a safe rate are (left) Malcolm Saubolle of Brampton, Stan Livshitz of North York and Italo DeBlasi of Whitby
      Dunlop, Al
      8/10/1989
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      Beach clean-up on island. Scuba divers from the Underwater Council retrieve debris at Olympic Beach on the Island yesterday, part of a campaign to cle(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      6/4/1972
      Going down: A scuba diver leaps into the open water from the ship in Toronto Harbor that serves as an underwater training centre -- even in the coldest of winter weather
      Going down: A scuba diver leaps into the open water from the ship in Toronto Harbor that serves as an underwater training centre -- even in the coldest of winter weather
      Canadian Underwater Training Centre
      1/15/1982
      Stranded victims of the flood in New Brunswick, Although flood waters are receding in Frederiction, the area downstream between Maugerville and Sheffi(...)
      Stranded victims of the flood in New Brunswick, Although flood waters are receding in Frederiction, the area downstream between Maugerville and Sheffi(...)
      Bull, Ron
      5/2/1973
      Going down into the clear blue waters of the Caribbean is a scuba diving student on her first solo
      Going down into the clear blue waters of the Caribbean is a scuba diving student on her first solo
      Spremo, Boris
      1/8/1969
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      Grim work: A police diver prepares to search a section of Lake Ontario yesterday off Hamilton for more body parts after a severed limb was found
      Millar, Cal
      1/6/1992
      Divers search for snowmobiles Lake Scugog
      Divers search for snowmobiles Lake Scugog
      Mahler, John
      1/18/1998
      Brown cloth cover with title and author in black. Small illustration of a man in a tricorn hat ...
      The pursuit of the house-boat : being some further account of the divers doings of the associated shades, under the leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq
      Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922
      1897
      Report on the most eligible route for a canal between Lake Simcoe and the Rice Lake, and Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay, to the Bay of Quinte, by the back waters of the New Castle District
      Report on the most eligible route for a canal between Lake Simcoe and the Rice Lake, and Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay, to the Bay of Quinte, by the back waters of the New Castle District
      Baird, N. H.
      1855
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      olymenakos, president of hausted Greek divers are nd a 10-inch, gold-plated cross thrown into the water
      Lennon, Frank
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