
By Heather Creech
Dive archaeologists from the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) record data on historic shipwrecks. Photo courtesy: Florida Public Archaeology Network
Citizen science is not just for nature explorers. Two years ago, a group of history buffs and shipwreck divers announced that they might have found the oldest known wreck in Lake Erie: the 47-ft (14m) schooner Lake Serpent, which disappeared in 1829…