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MY GRIFFON IS GONE - BUT WRECK BOOK ASKS FOR HOW LONG?

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Cris Kohl and Joan Forsberg The Wreck of the Griffon - The Greatest Mystery of the Great Lakes - an in print wiki for wreck wonks, historians, divers and mystery lovers Book Review  By Stephen Weir - published in July issue of Diver Magazine Just prior to the publishing of their new book about the 17th century barque Griffon, authors Cris Kohl and Joan Forsberg, asked famed writer and wreck hunter Clive Cussler what he knew about the missing Great Lakes’ ship.  “The Griffon -- isn’t that the shipwreck that somebody’s been finding every ten minutes?” he asked the pair. Cussler  nailed it in 11-words. It took Kohl and Forsberg a little longer.    The Wreck of the Griffon: The Greatest Mystery of the Great Lakes , is a 224 page printed Wiki (complete with over 200 colour and black and white images) about the ship, the men who built her, the crew who lost her and the legion of divers who say they have found her! Cris Kohl, a former wreck columnist with Diver Magazine, h