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Points North: The Good Thief?

17 min read

Points North: The Good Thief?

By Maxwell Howard, Interlochen Public Radio

Points North is a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.

This episode was shared here with permission from Interlochen Public Radio. 

One day in the early 1980s, diver Tom Farnquist was exploring the shipwrecked SS Comet in Lake Superior.

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The Good Thief?

16 min read

Tom Farnquist is in the business of preserving underwater artifacts and displaying them in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The problem is, a lot of those artifacts were technically stolen from the State of Michigan. And one day, the state notices.