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Page 13 GREAT LAKES & SEAWAY NEWS • the way to the United States Supreme Court. The case returned to Judge Bell after the Supreme Court set new legal standards for shipwreck disputes. Instead of prevailing by a "preponderance of evidence", Michigan had to prove abandonment by "Clear and convincing evidence". The wreck is located near Poverty Island east of Escanaba. The Fairport Group believes the wreck could be resting among chests of gold dating to the early 1800's. They believe the Captain Behrens may have recovered a chest of gold before his ship sank. They think the gold came from a French ship carrying a cargo of gold during The War of 1812 that was sunk. Nov 6 ... The cruise ship NORWEGIAN SKY departed the Davie Shipyard following repairs for her grounding. ... McKeil's tug DOUG MCKEIL and barge OCEAN HAULER loaded a water filtration system at the E. S. Fox dock in Port Robinson on the Welland Canal, delivery to the Canadian Soo. The pair were forced to tie up in Sarnia to wait out strong north winds on Lake Huron on November 16. They arrived at the Soo on November 21 and after unloading, loaded a cargo of scrap at Algoma Steel bound for Hamilton. Nov 9 ... The Maltese registered salty ALCOR ran aground on a sandbar off Ile d'Orleans in the St. Lawrence Seaway. She was upbound headed for Trois-Riviers with a cargo of cement when she developed propeller problems and she drifted aground. Attempts to free her the next day failed, on November 11 her crew was evacuated when cracks developed in her hull. She has sailed into the lakes in the past under the names PATRICIA V and MEKHANIK DREN. CANADIAN TRANSFER arriving at Marquette, MI - October 24, 1999