Blenheim, Ontario. - Save Ontario Shipwrecks (SOS) is pleased to announce that Joyce Hayward of Bellevue, Ohio has been presented with the 2007 SOS Director’s Award. The plaque is inscribed: “For her contribution and dedication to the preservation of our shared marine heritage”. The award was presented in Ohio on June 16th 2007 by SOS President Brian Prince.
Joyce has been the Committee
Chair of the Ohio Chapter of Save Ontario Shipwrecks for over 20 years and is
also a founding Board Member of the Maritime Archaeological Survey Team (MAST).
She has worked as a main contributor sharing the happenings on each others side
of the Great Lakes. She personifies the ethics of marine heritage groups such
as SOS and MAST. Joyce is the only member of SOS to receive two Director’s
Awards and has also been awarded an Honorary Membership.
Joyce began diving in 1982. During her diving career she has served as the Great Lakes Director of the Atlantic Alliance for Maritime Heritage, and the Vice President of the Association for the Great Lakes Maritime History, where she served as chair of the Divers Coordination Committee. Joyce has held various offices with the Ohio Council of Skin and Scuba Divers, where she is currently the Secretary and serves as Chair of the Legislative Action Committee.
Joyce has been named the “Diver of the Year” on three occasions from the State of Ohio. She was also appointed by the Governor of Ohio to serve on the Submerged Lands Advisory Council, a management advisory committee for the shipwrecks of Lake Erie.
She has received the Order of Excellence from the Atlantic Alliance for Maritime Heritage Conservation, the Distinguished Service Award from the Ohio Council of Skin and Scuba Divers, and the Directors Achievement Award from Save Ontario Shipwrecks, and was inducted into the Women Diver’s Hall of Fame in 2001.
Joyce is an Assistant Scuba Instructor, Master Diver, Technical and Tri-mix diver and member of IANTD. She has been involved in deep (over 160ft/50m) diving since 1988. Joyce has organized and helped to instruct archaeological training workshops in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana. She has been featured in several videos and television documentaries including Michigan in Depth and been featured in Voices of the Lake and The Best Adventure Yet. Her photography has appeared in various publications and she has given presentations all over the United States and Canada. She is often referred to as “The Lady of the Lakes”.
Save Ontario Shipwrecks is a not for profit group incorporated in Ontario Canada, dedicated to the study, preservation and promotion of an appreciation of marine heritage. Incorporated in 1981, SOS is a public charitable organization of dedicated volunteers. Operating through local Chapter Committees supported by a Board of Directors, volunteers have undertaken many projects and activities such as underwater archaeological investigations, historical and archival research, oral histories, side scan surveys, historical plaques and mooring buoys on heritage sites. Through chapter sponsored projects, such as plaques, surveys, buoys and internationally recognized diver training through the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS), SOS not only helps protect dive sites, but spreads the important word to many others. SOS believes in in-situ preservation of artifacts (i.e., leaving them where found) as opposed to expensive preservation and then being hidden from the public in museum collection storage facilities. For more information about SOS please visit www.SaveOntarioShipwrecks.on.ca and www.DiveToPreserve.org or contact Brian Prince at .
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