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Things found in the Detroit River

This statue of a nude was transferred to the Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Grosse Pointe Farms where it originally was part of the fountain. It was recently recovered from the Detroit River. Handout photo from the Grosse Pointe War Memorial received May 15, 2009.
This statue of a nude was transferred to the Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Grosse Pointe Farms where it originally was part of the fountain. It was recently recovered from the Detroit River. Handout photo from the Grosse Pointe War Memorial received May 15, 2009.
Courtesy Of Grosse Pointe War Memorial
Visitors view an 18th-Century British cannon found in the Detroit River in 2011 while on display, following a three-year restoration, at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014.
Visitors view an 18th-Century British cannon found in the Detroit River in 2011 while on display, following a three-year restoration, at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014.
Paul Sancya, AP
The British lion decorates one of the clay pipes recovered from the Detroit River bottom at Amherstbung. The name of the pipe-maker - Williams - is inscribed on the stem. Searches also found cannonballs, bayonets, bottles and coins from the 19th Century.
The British lion decorates one of the clay pipes recovered from the Detroit River bottom at Amherstbung. The name of the pipe-maker - Williams - is inscribed on the stem. Searches also found cannonballs, bayonets, bottles and coins from the 19th Century.
Richard Lee, Free Press
Detroit Police Dive Teams and Boulevard and Trumbull Towing retrieve a zebra mussel-encrusted Mercury Capri from the Detroit River near Junction and West Jefferson in Detroit, July 1, 2009.
Detroit Police Dive Teams and Boulevard and Trumbull Towing retrieve a zebra mussel-encrusted Mercury Capri from the Detroit River near Junction and West Jefferson in Detroit, July 1, 2009.
Susan Tusa, Detroit Free Press
A cannon that appears to be more than 200 years old is pulled from the Detroit River by the Detroit Police Department's dive team and a tow truck Oct. 5, 2011.
A cannon that appears to be more than 200 years old is pulled from the Detroit River by the Detroit Police Department's dive team and a tow truck Oct. 5, 2011.
Regina H. Boone, Detroit Free Press
A cannon that appears to be more than 200 years old is pulled from the Detroit River by the Detroit Police Department's dive team and a tow truck Oct. 5, 2011.
A cannon that appears to be more than 200 years old is pulled from the Detroit River by the Detroit Police Department's dive team and a tow truck Oct. 5, 2011.
Regina H. Boone, Detroit Free Press
Trenton Police Chief Rick Newsome, shown May 6, 2004, lost his Central Michigan University's national championship football ring from 1974 when he went into the Detroit River after a suspect in a high-speed police chase. Several years later when the water level in the river dropped so low that you could walk across to Grosse Ile, he found the ring sitting atop the deep mud right where he had lost it years before.
Trenton Police Chief Rick Newsome, shown May 6, 2004, lost his Central Michigan University's national championship football ring from 1974 when he went into the Detroit River after a suspect in a high-speed police chase. Several years later when the water level in the river dropped so low that you could walk across to Grosse Ile, he found the ring sitting atop the deep mud right where he had lost it years before.
J. Kyle Keener, Detroit Free Press
This is a bow anchor from the Edmund Fitzgerald that was lost in the Detroit River in 1974 near Cobo Hall. It was recovered in 1992 and is at the Dossin Museum overlooking the Detroit River.
This is a bow anchor from the Edmund Fitzgerald that was lost in the Detroit River in 1974 near Cobo Hall. It was recovered in 1992 and is at the Dossin Museum overlooking the Detroit River.
Mary Schroeder, Detroit Free Press
Don Martin of Dearborn Heights adjusts his headphones on his waterproof metal detector as he searches the shores of Belle Isle in 2001 for treasures lost in the Detroit River.
Don Martin of Dearborn Heights adjusts his headphones on his waterproof metal detector as he searches the shores of Belle Isle in 2001 for treasures lost in the Detroit River.
David P. Gilkey, Detroit Free Press
Mark Swanson lowers this anchor pulled out of the Detroit River near the J.W. Westcott Company in 2000. The anchor was discovered six years ago, is about six feet long and weighs about 1,000 pounds.
Mark Swanson lowers this anchor pulled out of the Detroit River near the J.W. Westcott Company in 2000. The anchor was discovered six years ago, is about six feet long and weighs about 1,000 pounds.
Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press