shipwreck

A 172 foot barge, the Atlanta, was recently found 35 miles off the coast of Michigan under 650 feet of water in Lake Superior.

The federal infrastructure bill promises Michigan a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix our built environment—if leaders can rise to the occasion. Also, what the influx of federal money can do for Great Lakes cleanup efforts. Plus, exploring the many shipwrecks of mighty Lake Superior.

Researchers are setting out again in search of the remains of Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 that disappeared over Lake Michigan nearly 70 years ago.The…

Nobody ever thought they would find it: the P-39 fighter plane that Tuskegee Airman Frank Herman Moody, originally of Oklahoma, was flying over Lake Huron…

Standing on the shores of the Great Lakes on a sunny late-summer day, it’s virtually impossible to think of those sparkling waves as a death trap.But…

Most people have heard of a bird or wildlife sanctuary, but fewer are familiar with sanctuaries for shipwrecks.The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary…

Anyone with even passing knowledge of the Great Lakes knows that there are secrets beneath those waves: ships that have foundered.Many have been found,…

The U.S. Coast Guard is moving ahead – very, very carefully, it says – with plans to recover hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel from a sunken barge…

The Coast Guard has been responding to a leaky shipwreck on the bottom of western Lake Erie.The shipwreck is believed to be the Argo. It’s a tank barge…

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - The U.S. Coast Guard says divers in Lake Erie have found and plugged a pinhole-sized leak on a sunken barge near where an oil-based…