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Underwater film pioneer and TV figure Jacques Cousteau was scheduled to bring his 140-foot research vessel CALYPSO into Lake Superior in September to film three one-hour documentaries on Superior Shoal, in a joint venture with the National Film Board of Canada. The Superior Shoal area lies between the Pictured Rocks Bill Luke, Editor National Lakeshore and Whitefish Bay. ** Triad Salvage has acquired the bunkering barge MARINE FUEL for dis- mantling at Ashtabula. ** U.S. Steel's 1,000-foot EDGAR B. SPEER underwent initial lake trials off Lorain on August 26th. Big Steel's bulkers EUGENE W. PARGNY and HOMER D. WILLIAMS are said to be for sale at Duluth, hopefully for operation rather than dismantling. ** Keel for the first tug to be built by the Upper Peninsula Shipbuilding Company of Ontonogon was laid July 22nd. ** The USNS NAVAHO, fourth in a series of seven U.S. Navy tugs built by Marinette Marine, was downbound at Port Huron on July 25th on her delivery voyage to the West Coast. The USNS CATAWBA preceded her earlier. The 226-footers are powered by two 20-cylinder diesels developing 7,200 hp. ** The Lake Michigan carferry ARTHUR K. ATKINSON has resumed service following extensive engine Tete Commissioned at Manitowoc on August 9th, the vessel had been idle for seven yea: *k Confirmation has been received that Westdale Shipping's self-unloader eee BROOKDALE has been permanently withdrawn from service at Toronto following the loss of her boom at Windsor on July 17th. ** Interlake Steamship's ELTON HOYT 2ND, under conversion to self-unloader at American Ship Building's Toledo yard since last Fall, will remain out of service until the 1981 season. Meanwhile, Cleveland-Cliffs' steamer EDWARD B. GREENE arrived at the Toledo facility for a similar conversion on August 7th. ** The former CSL package freighter ESKIMO has been renamed MATHILDA DESGAGNES by her new owners, Groupe Desgagnes. ** Ownership of Mohawk Navigation's 730-foot steamer SENNEVILLE was recently transferred to Pioneer Transportation Company. be operated by Misener Transportation. ** An additional group of American-flag Lakers has gone into layup. Included are Columbia's JOSEPH H. FRANTZ, W. W. HOLLOWAY, RESERVE, WILLIAM R. ROESCH and COURTNEY BURTON, Boco's ROGER M. KYES and CHARLES E. WILSON, Hanna's LEON FALK, JR. and Ford's ERNEST R. BREECH. Recently 0. The carrier continues to reactivated were Amoco's AMOCO INDIANA and Kinsman's MERLE M. MCCURDY. ** interest to boat fans in the Detour area was the August 10th layup of Interlake's handsome steamer HARRY COULBY at the old coal dock there. Fitout crews were back on board the vessel however by August 27th. ** Two more former Canadian bulkers have been moved from their Hamilton moorings enroute to European shipbreakers. The pair is the former Q&0 steamer HELEN EVANS and Upper Lakes Shipping steamer THORNHILL. The latter was towed out on September 4th. ** The former Westdale Shipping self- unloader PINEDALE will be dismantled at Hamilton by her present owner, Pitts Engineering Construction, Ltd., of Toronto. ** Collingwood Shipyards will launch their HULL 219, Algoma's 730-foot self-unloader, on October 7th, rather than September 25th as earlier planned. She will be christened ALGOWOOD and be delivered in April. Collingwood's HULL 224, another 730-foot self-unloader for Algoma, will be constructed in part there, the remainder at the Port Arthur yard at Thunder Bay. The vessel's mid-body and stern will be towed from Collingwood for joining with the Port Arthur-built bow section. Her delivery is scheduled for August, 1983. American Can of Canada's motorvessel D. C. EVEREST is reportedly for sale at the Port Arthur shipyard. ** Rumor has Paterson's TROISDOC, last of the true canallers, headed for Gulf of Mexico operation at the close of the present season. ** Efforts are underway in Sandusky, Ohio to construct a replica of the double-ended steam ferry G. A. BOECKLING, long familiar in the area. Target date for project completion is July 10, 1982, exactly 30 years after the ferry departed for Sturgeon Bay where she still serves as a floating parts warehouse for Peterson Builders.