Milwaukee Ghost Ships Festival Adds New Classes, Workshops & Speakers
The Ghost Ships Festival has added four new workshops and more than a dozen speakers to its schedule. The hands-on workshops include: Discover Rebreathers; Documentation and Survey Methods for Shipwreck Sites; Side Scanning & Shipwreck Hunting 101; and Discover Scuba. All of the workshops require advance registration and all, except for Discover Scuba, require a separate participation fee. The Ghost Ships Festival runs Friday, March 7, 3:00 - 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 8, 8:30 a.m. 7:00 p.m. at the Wyndham Milwaukee Airport & Convention Center. Advance tickets are $20 and day-of tickets are $25. The featured speakers for the 2008 festival are Ralph Wilbanks and Harry Pecorelli, underwater archaeologists from Clive Cussler's National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA). On Friday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m., the pair will share their 15-year journey to locate the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley. Prior to their talk, Wilbanks and Pecorelli will be available from 3:00 7:00 p.m. to sign autographs and share stories of their other diving experiences. To purchase a ticket or for information about the event and details about the workshops, visit http://www.ghost-ships.org/Ghostships/default.aspx or send an email to [email protected].
