Rip Tide in Lake Superior

[greenje]

A group of us were diving on the Ely in Two Harbors on 8/23 and observed a really nasty current at the sea wall. Conditions on the wreck were calm and clear. Later in the day, a wind shift ocurred (and a freigher left the harbor). Shortly after that there was a mean current going around the southwest corner of the sea wall (where there is a narrow gap between the wall and the shore). Although conditions on the wreck were not affected much, I'm sure that anyone who would happen to get to close the the end of the sea wall would have been swept out of the harbor and into deeper water.