21 foot Boston Whaler
On the night of Sept. 28, 2023 during a sonar survey in Lake Ontario we picked up this target. We returned to the site on Sept. 30, 2023 with our ROV to see what it was. It turned out to be a 21 foot Boston Whaler with a Evinrude outboard motor on it as well as a Johnson trolling motor, along with a full set of downriggers. Further research showed that the boat belonged to Mike Tanner. There were two aboard fishing that day Mike and his friend Terry both had a fish on their lines standing on the back of the boat. Water came over the back of the stern and the boat went down quickly. They were lucky to have been seen by a passing fishing boat from Sandy Creek called the Pisces that picked them up. Mike’s fishing boat now rests in deep waters of Lake Ontario. For more shipwreck discoveries go to https://sonarguy.com/