- Date
- 1958-09
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Garden Island · Hog Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimepublicationtourismrecreation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 1958 Beaver Beacon reports several weeks of skin-diving work from two powered rafts and color filming of shipwrecks around Garden and Hog Islands. Bob Miller and Jim Sawtelle are named as divers.
Evidence limits
The newspaper does not identify the film production, individual wrecks, equipment, filming dates, footage, or later exhibition.
Sources
- Reports divers working for several weeks from two outboard-powered rafts, with diving equipment on a raft supported by four inflated rubber compartments, and color movies being taken of shipwrecks around Garden and Hog Islands. It names Bob Miller and Jim Sawtelle as divers but does not identify the production, wrecks, cameras, dates, footage, or later exhibition. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1958-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the underwater-filming report; it does not expand the maritime, film, or wreck record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1958-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Skin divers film Beaver Island shipwrecks for underwater movies, 1958”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-underwater-movie-divers-1958/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1958, “SKIN DIVERS AT WORK MAKING UNDERWATER MOVIES.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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