Ric Mixter, who has explored the Edmund Fitzgerald wreckage, brings his "Howling Winds" presentation about canine survivors ...

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

The schooner-barge Chieftain’s remains still lie in the Saginaw River near where ... it was one of the largest wooden ships on the Great Lakes during its day. It changed ownership in the late ...

The shipwreck, broken in two, was discovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society using sonar technology. A historic all-steel ship that broke records as it cruised the Great Lakes but ...

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

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI -- The 2025 Great Lakes shipping season is now underway, with the first ship passing through the Soo ...

With the arrival of spring, the season for shipping on the Great Lakes typically begins. The event coincides with the opening ...

Though some individual researchers place the number much higher, the official estimate is that slightly more than 6,000 ships lie on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Roughly half of them fell ...

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