shipwrecks

When it launched in 1958, the 729-foot SS Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship sailing the Great Lakes.

40 years later, we're still captivated by the Edmund Fitzgerald

Sarah Cwiek

Of the thousands of shipwrecks that fill the Great Lakes, most people can name only one: the Edmund Fitzgerald.It’s the last and the largest ship ever…

Environment & Climate Change

Shipwrecks posing threat to US waters hold many unknowns

The Associated Press

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A dive team is searching for the source of what appears to be an oil-based substance leaking from a barge that sank in Lake Erie…

Environment & Climate Change

Meet the guy who discovered the shipwreck believed to be the Argo

Rebecca Williams

The Coast Guard is investigating a leak from a 78-year-old tank barge in western Lake Erie that's believed to be the Argo.It sank in a storm in…

Side sonar scan of the sunken barge believed to be the "Argo."

Environment & Climate Change

Recently discovered Lake Erie shipwreck sparks an emergency response from Coast Guard

Rebecca Williams

Update - Monday, October 26, 10:10 a.m.:The Coast Guard is sending out a crew from Station Marblehead in Ohio along with members of the Atlantic Strike…

Environment & Climate Change

Shipwreck graveyard could become National Marine Sanctuary

Michigan Radio Newsroom

Almost 900 square miles of Lake Michigan near Wisconsin have been added to an inventory of sites up for consideration as National Marine Sanctuaries.The…

Environment & Climate Change

Marine sanctuary expanding in Lake Huron

Steve Carmody

A watery window to Michigan’s past is expanding.The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary is expanding from its present 448 square miles of Lake Huron to…