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 ...

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 ...

Why Are There So Many Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes? Beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, thousands of shipwrecks, hulking carcasses of a bygone era, have been hiding for generations, just waiting ...

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A ship that had been missing since 1868 has been found in Lake Erie, solving a historical mystery after more than 150 years.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A newly discovered Lake Erie shipwreck has been confirmed as the Clough, a 125-foot stone-hauling vessel built in Lorain in 1867 that sank just one year later during the height of ...

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 ...

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 ...