Today we talk about the Diamond Lady Riverboat casino being exposed out of water for the first time since sinking and being docked at McKellar Lake, a backwater of the Mississippi River, in 2008. It is now among several sunken boats stuck in McKellar Lake’s mud as the Mississippi reaches record low water levels. The Diamond Lady first set sail 31 years ago, "Three thousand excited people lined the dock in Bettendorf, Ia. on April 1, 1991 to watch Vanna White christen its first excursion. The riverboat took four trips that day, including a dinner cruise that cost $37.95. In 1992, Goldstein announced plans to move the Diamond Lady south on the river to Biloxi, Mississippi, whose regulations and tax rates were more to his liking. After the Diamond Lady’s last cruise on July 5 of that year, she and her sister ship, the Emerald Lady, sailed to Biloxi’s eastern tip. Here, Goldstein tied them permanently together and to a dock. That created the Isle of Capri, Mississippi’s first dockside casino. But the former Diamond Lady and Emerald Lady were replaced by a barge. And, after being destroyed in 2005 from Hurricane Katrina, the dockside casino was replaced by a land-based casino inside the Isle of Capri’s hotel." (Mississippi Historic Riverboat Casino’s Sunken Shell Exposed by Drought, Casino.org, Corey Levitan, 2022) It's incredible to even imagine that a riverboat that has been underwater at one point is now sitting on the dirt/mud with no water underneath it. Just goes to show that there is a drought happening across many parts of the world. Not just near Iowa, but also places like Lake Mead which has dropped significantly over the last year with more and more secrets coming out of there too.

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https://youtu.be/iHv8B0Whcds