  ooden Bones: The Sunken Fleet of 1758” is the new documentary from Pepe Productions and Bateaux Below, Inc. The documentary tells the intriguing story of a momentous event at Lake George in 1758, a decision by the British to sink their own fleet to protect those warships over the winter from French raiders.
The 58 minute long documentary examines the historical events at Lake George that led up to “The Sunken Fleet of 1758” and the decades-long search by historians and underwater archaeologists to answer lingering questions about how this risky strategy helped the British win the French & Indian War.
Among the stories featured in the documentary are the archaeological study of the dozens of bateau wrecks found in Lake George, the strange story of a 1960 research submarine built to help photograph French & Indian War shipwrecks that was stolen and mysteriously sunk in the lake, and an underwater archaeology project that mapped a submerged 1758-built military wharf, one of the best-preserved waterfront structures from the colonial era. Finally, “Wooden Bones” examines interpretive programs that tell the story of Lake George’s 18th century heritage—school-conducted replica archaeology programs that built bateau watercraft, a shipwreck park where scuba enthusiasts “Dive Into History,” and a cutting-edge endeavor where a scientific illustrator, a cell biologist, and an underwater archaeology team collaborated to create startling art that interprets the micro-world inhabiting historic shipwrecks.
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