The Great Lakes are home to an astounding 6,000 shipwrecks in which 30,000 people have died, according to the Shipwreck Museum. Most famous of all is the Edmund Fitzgerald, a cargo ship that went ...

In fact, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum estimates that around 6,000 ships lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes, and that around 30,000 people lost their lives as they sank.

Great lakes shipwreck museum. In August 1892, owner Captain Peter G. Minch and his family embarked on a summer pleasure cruise aboard the vessel — which was also deemed the “safest ship in the ...

The relay swim, in honor of 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, will cover 411 miles and aims to ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, in the Upper Peninsula, highlights the many tragedies on the lakes. Here's what to know. When does shipping season begin?

The Great Lakes have claimed thousands of lives and ships.The exact total will never be known, but historians estimate that 25–30,000 people have drowned on around 6,000 vessels since the 17th ...

In fact, the Great Lakes make for a world-class shipwreck museum, albeit one that can be reached only by competent SCUBA divers or ROVs like Rhody, depending on the wreck’s depth.

The Great Lakes are home to an astounding 6,000 shipwrecks in which 30,000 people have died, according to the Shipwreck Museum. Most famous of all is the Edmund Fitzgerald, a cargo ship that went ...

Ghost ship found after 132 years in the murky depths of 'Shipwreck Coast' Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.

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 came ...