Hon. Brennan James Callan, Col., is a Certified Underwater Archaeologist. His explorations of Kentucky's waterways for purposes of Underwater Archaeology began in 1990 as a serious pursuit.
This year the crew was supposed to include an additional production team for documenting the trip taken with the listed canoeing crew, but unfortunately, that team canceled about a week before the trip and that required the listed team to come up with other equipment to make this project move forward. It was a real hardship.
The Long Run Lake Park was used for training the crew for operations with the canoe both inside and outside of the canoe. Intentionally, the canoe was flipped without the camera in the canoe and at the lake because motorized vessels are not allowed in the rain-fed lake. This lake is the primary place where Brennan trains crew members because it is extremely safe of most issues other than what the ducks drop on the shore.
The ferryboats on the Green River are vital to the smaller communities and counties that cannot get modern bridges to traverse the river. Yet, they are an important connection to the earlier forms of transportation dating back into Kentucky's Revolutionary War period. Land along the Green River in Kentucky were land warrant tracts of land for the Revolutionary War soldiers.
The use of canoes on Kentucky's waterways is vital and important because the smaller rivers tend to have inoperable lock & dam structures that require portage over-top of the former dam esplanades. In many cases, it is a good opportunity to camp-out or at least to stop for lunch while performing the portage. The fore and aft lines of the canoe must be longer height (lift) of the stream to the top of the lock walls. This way, once gear is removed from the canoe, then the can can be vertically lifted by the crew up to the lockwall and gate seal of the lock chamber door.