Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman)

Mr. Nice in: The Telephone

By Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) | August 18, 2013

NSFW. Tune in Sundays for new installments.

Lake Superior Gator Attack

By Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) | August 11, 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsLk7dArmpU

Many people don’t realize Lake Superior is infested with fearsome man-eating alligators.

Searching for Sophie’s Wreck (and Failing)

By Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) | August 6, 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmjg18c56AQ

There’s a small boat wrecked off the 2600 block of Park Point, nicknamed Sophie’s Wreck after the girl who first spotted it through the clear ice of a few years ago. I tried to find it the other day and wound up meeting and talking with Sophie’s mom who said the shifting sands had covered it for a year or so now. I looked for it anyway and, failing that, goofed around in a few feet of water. It was an odd feeling knowing there was a shipwreck close by, perhaps right under me, expectantly prepared to see it at any time.

Late July, Lake Superior

By Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) | August 3, 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr7H_oEW_7o

The Deeps

By Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) | July 28, 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIVkUahcMLQ

Lester River Swimming Hole

By Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) | July 26, 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BQIhvFyrkk

Freediving the Ruins of Duluth’s Outer Harbor

By Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) | July 24, 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyh72tSSZys

Freediving the century-plus-old ruins of Duluth’s outer harbor. First the old breakwater wall (cribbing filled with rocks) that stretches 1000′ from the Vietnam Memorial to the red buoy. The buoy’s function is to mark this as a shipping hazard (at that distance from shore the buoy is in 30 feet of water). The destruction of the breakwater wall in a storm spurred the digging of the canal. Then the column or pillar of Uncle Harvey’s Mausoleum, essentially a bundle of timbers sheathed in concrete. Then Uncle Harvey’s itself, in 16 feet of water, also built on cribbing.