In 1997 the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Lake Survey team discovered Benedict Arnold's 1776 gondola, intact and upright, on the bottom of Lake Champlain. Spitfire was the last unaccounted-for vessel of the Battle of Valcour Island.
Art Cohn, archaeologist, diver, and co-founder and Senior Advisor and Special Projects Director for the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum will discuss the preservation challenges of this remarkable discovery. Cohn led the 10-year Lake Survey project, which systematically mapped the Lake Champlain's lake floor, finding more than 70 previously undiscovered shipwrecks.