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Discovery Cruises, leaving from Lake St. Clair Metropark, begin Friday. Speakers talk about everything from shipwrecks to ...
Historians are racing to locate Great Lakes shipwrecks before a seemingly unstoppable invasive mussel destroys them and erases part of the region's heritage.
The oldest shipwreck discovered in the Great Lakes is the HMS Ontario. The British warship was built in 1780 and had 22 cannons. It navigated Lake Ontario hauling troops and cargo, often stopping ...
Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. By ABC News. December 30, 2003, 4:43 PM. M I L W A U K E E, Jan. 2 -- Like tourists in an underwater museum, diversin the Great Lakes explore shipwrecks searching ...
Fully mapping the lakes for the first time also could reveal the location of hundreds of shipwrecks — some estimates put the number of Great Lakes wrecks at around 6,000 — and relics from ...
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 ...
Michigan sits nestled among the Great Lakes — the world's largest freshwater system and a major shipping hub, with over 160 million tons of waterborne cargo traveling through the region each ...
Citing findings from the University of Buffalo, the article said there is more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the bottom of the five Great Lakes, which have been sunk since the 1600s by vicious storms ...
CBS News Detroit Digital Brief for Sept. 25, 2023 02:56. The Great Lakes' frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — 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 ...
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 ...
Archaeologists are scrambling to locate Great Lakes shipwrecks and downed planes before quagga mussels destroy them. Wayne Lusardi via AP. Go Deeper. Create an account or log in to save stories.