The startling noise of metal on metal was unusual on a coral reef and unlocked a nearly century-old mystery of a tragic ...

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 ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The Great Lakes Children’s Museum has opened Shipwreck at Curiosity Bay, a new immersive exhibit at Curiosity Place that invites children and families to explore Great Lakes shipwrecks ...

ALPENA, MI - You don’t have to get in the (currently) frigid Lake Huron waters to explore these Great Lakes shipwrecks. NOAA Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary has recreated 3D models of nearly 30 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes history, but it's just one of hundreds of vessels lost to these waters. For researchers, ...

Roughly 6,000 ships have wrecked on the Great Lakes, with about 1,500 occurring in Michigan waters. The deadliest early spring shipwreck on Lake Erie was the Anthony Wayne in 1850, resulting in up to ...

No one knows exactly how many shipwrecks lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Estimates range between 4,000 and 10,000, but only a fraction of those sunken vessels have been found. When the ...

Many Michiganders grow up with the Great Lakes as a backdrop, serving as a place to swim, sail and escape the heat. But few of us think about what lies just a little deeper. For centuries, these ...

MILWAUKEE -- Like tourists in an underwater museum, divers in the Great Lakes explore shipwrecks searching for remnants of clothes, containers of food or even floating human remains.

Winter storms on the Great Lakes can temporarily lower water levels, revealing shipwrecks and other submerged features. Strong, sustained winds during colder months push water from one end of a lake ...