Less than one week into the shipping season – the Soo Locks opened on March 21 – the Boat Nerd map shows dozens of freighters ...

See the new exhibit on the Great Lakes and explore the historic Mather’s cargo holds, pilot house, guest quarters, and engine ...

The Soo Locks in northern Michigan reopened March 21, kicking off the Great Lakes shipping season.

During the peak shipping season, the Great Lakes region has well over 100 bulk carrier, self-unloading, straight-deck ...

The 2025 Great Lakes shipping season kicks off this week when the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and reopen early ...

Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.

One of the first all-steel freighters on the Great Lakes ... estimate is that slightly more than 6,000 ships lie on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Roughly half of them fell victim during ...

The Great Lakes shipping season gets underway early this week as the Soo Locks open Friday morning. How to watch the big ...

The Western Reserve, an all-steel freighter that sank in ... A historic all-steel ship that broke records as it cruised the Great Lakes but came to a tragic end has been found more than 100 ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that went down in a November 1975 storm that was immortalized in the Gordon Lightfoot song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," sank off Whitefish Point within 100 ...