"Shipwreck World, a group that works to locate shipwrecks around the globe, announced Friday that a team led by Illinois shipwreck hunter Paul Ehorn found the Lac La Belle about 20 miles (32 kilometers) offshore between Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin, in October 2022. Ehorn told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Sunday that the announcement was delayed because his team wanted to include a three-dimensional video model of the ship with it, but poor weather and other commitments kept his dive team from going back down to the wreck until last summer."
"Ehorn, 80, has been searching for shipwrecks since he was 15 years old. He said that he's been trying to pinpoint the Lac La Belle's location since 1965. He used a clue from fellow wreck hunter and author Ross Richardson in 2022 to narrow down his search grid and found the ship using side-scan sonar after just two hours on the lake, he said."
Searchers discovered the luxury steamer Lac La Belle about 20 miles offshore between Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin, in October 2022. The team was led by Illinois shipwreck hunter Paul Ehorn. The public announcement was delayed to include a three-dimensional video model; poor weather and other commitments postponed dives to create that model until the following summer. Ehorn first began searching for the Lac La Belle in 1965 and narrowed the 2022 search using a clue from wreck hunter Ross Richardson. The team located the wreck using side-scan sonar after only two hours on the lake. The Lac La Belle was built in 1864 and sank in the St. Clair River in 1866 after a collision.
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