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 ...

Anglers on the shores and on the ice all over the lakes rely on the buoy data to track fish populations. Freighters sailing ... to study the state’s two Great Lakes. Faculty at universities ...

Around 200 ships have sunk in Whitefish Bay, the same place where the Western Reserve broke apart. The most notable in the ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society made the initial ... The most notable in the area happened in 1975 when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, an American freighter, wrecked, killing 29 people on ...

Georgia’s Senate passed a bill that would allow President Donald Trump and more than a dozen people to seek compensation for ...

It arrived in the ballast water of a transatlantic freighter and colonized parts of Lake St. Clair. In less than ten years, zebra mussels spread to all five Great Lakes, wreaking havoc on ecosystems.

Although the Western Reserve was found in Lake Superior, estimates suggest there are more than 1,700 ships resting just in Lake Michigan.

This freighter lay undiscovered for 132 years until this past summer when a team with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society discovered the wreckage 600 feet down off the coast of Michigan ...

Illinois to become a chief engineer on a half-century-long career sailing the Great Lakes. The book recounts life on the open seas when Baxter sailed on the L.E. Block lake freighter that was ...