Independence was a steamboat that sailed the Great Lake Superior back in the 1840s. She was built to sail the lake, rolled up into the lake, and spent most of her like supporting the various mining operations around Lake Superior. She sank in 1853, after her boiler exploded a mere mile or two from the rapids leading out of Lake Superior. Many brave men went out to rescue as many passengers and crew as they could before the rapids claimed her and dragged her down. It was a tragedy. But what if it was something more?