CLEVELAND, Ohio – David VanZandt was not afraid of a challenge. He jumped out of planes while serving with the U.S. Army Airborne and became an engineer who designed experiments for NASA.
And after longtime friend Lorry Wagner introduced him to SCUBA diving, he became enamored with maritime archaeology. It led to the creation of Cleveland Underwater Explorers, a group devoted to diving on Great Lakes shipwrecks.
It was while diving on one of those wrecks, the Clough, several miles northeast of Burke Lakefront Airport, that VanZandt ran into trouble and died on June 1, 2024. He was 70…