The organization's name is its mandate Preserve Our Wrecks, or POW, was formed in 1980 after a winch was stolen from the schooner barge Aloha. Area divers, dive shop owners and charter boat operators began unofficially policing the wrecks. The organization has paid for and in-stalled mooring lines at 22 wreck sites so boats can be tied up safely while divers explore below Prior to the use of the mooring lines, wrecks had been extensively damaged by anchors being dropped right into them or dragged across them. Thibault defends Shoniker's right to keep the Frontenac co-ordinates secret. POW has no wrecks in reserve.
Some individual members do.
It's like having a secret fishing hole. A guy doesn't have to tell if he doesn't want to. So they have their own little diving domain. There was an era, from the late 1950s and into the 1970's when all of lake Ontario around Kingston was Barbara Carson's domain. Carson is legendary in local diving circles, having helped find dozens of wrecks through meticulous research, tenacity and the daring to plunge with fellow explorers into unknown waters.