Last year, maritime archaeologists revisited the "Northerner" in Lake Michigan and captured hundreds of still images, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winter storms on the Great Lakes have a habit of briefly giving things back — from exposed reefs and forgotten shorelines to ...

(WLUK) -- There are well over 6,000 shipwrecks between the five Great Lakes, the most well-known, of course, being the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck in which ...

WHITEFISH POINT — The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is closing out what appears to be a record-breaking season. The museum, located in northwest Chippewa County, opened for the season May 1 and will ...

Since its designation in 2021, the sanctuary has launched initiatives for underwater mapping, shipwreck documentation and ...

PRESQUE ISLE, MI - After 175 years, this wooden schooner is intact from stem to stern. Resting 135 feet underwater, the Northwestern looms out of the depths of Lake Huron looking almost as if it’s ...

In November 1966, the freighter Daniel J. Morrell encountered a violent storm on Lake Huron. Without warning, the ship broke ...

It was far from the deadliest shipwreck in the history of the Great Lakes. But none are more enduring. Nov. 10 marks the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot ore carrier ...

“Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by John U. Bacon strikes a chord with many of us. The stories of crews and ships lost on the Great Lakes are a large part of our history.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The 144-year-old shipwreck of a rare sailing vessel that typically wasn’t used for long voyages on the Great Lakes has been found in deep water off Lake Ontario’s New York shore, ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...

Winter storms on the Great Lakes have a habit of briefly giving things back — from exposed reefs and forgotten shorelines to shipwrecks that have sat underwater for more than a century. Over multiple ...