S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the return of a set of important belongings to the Lakota community and a baseball field resurrected ...

Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist and diving instructor, has helped uncover more than 100 shipwrecks across the region ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so ...

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — If poured out like a pitcher of lemonade, the water held by the Great Lakes could cover the land mass of both North and South America with more than a foot of water. In fact, Lake ...

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. Divers say it's ...

Beware of the "gales of November" on the Great Lakes this month, as singer Gordon Lightfoot warned, because this month has been particularly deadly for sailors on the lakes for hundreds of years. Over ...

In the last several months, two more-than-a-century-old shipwrecks were discovered in the Great Lakes - the SS James Carruthers in Lake Huron, one of the largest missing ships in the region, and the ...

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975, was among Great Lakes disasters attributed to "the gales of November," as singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot later described them. November ...

Now, an invasive mussel is destroying shipwrecks deep in the depths of the lakes, forcing archeologists and amateur historians into a race against time to find as many sites as they can before the ...