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 ...

There's something incongruous about the idea of diving for shipwrecks in a lake. The Great Lakes are so large that, when you stand on the shores of their best beaches, it can be easy to forget you're ...

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, ...

The Great Lakes are filled with shipwrecks. But these underwater time capsules are under threat from an unlikely foe: mussels ...

Black and white photo of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald underway. - United States Army Corps of Engineers/Wikimedia Commons The Great Lakes are a network of freshwater lakes located in eight states — ...

Beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, thousands of shipwrecks, hulking carcasses of a bygone era, have been hiding for generations, just waiting to be revealed. Once someone stumbles upon one of ...

The Michigan Maritime Museum will kick off its 2026 Lecture Series with a presentation titled "History of the Great Lakes in 12 Shipwrecks." The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 25. The lecture ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...