From July 1, 2022, OPB.org. by AP.
A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest item to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and Arizona.
It is a Higgins landing craft that was originally 185 feet below the surface is now nearly half way out of the water at Lake Mead about a mile from the Lake Mead Marina and Hemingway Harbor. It was used to survey the Colorado River decades ago, sold to the marina and then sunk.
Higgins Industries in New Orleans built several thousand landing craft between 1942 and 1945. Around 1,500 "Higgins Boats" were deployed on Normandy on D-Day on June 6, 1944.
The boat is only one of a series of objects appearing because of the declining waters of Lake Mead, the largest human-made reservoir in the U.S. held back by the Hoover Dam. In May, two sets of human remains were found in the span of one week.
--GreGen
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