WHITEFISH TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The location of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is no coincidence. "We do have 200 shipwrecks, approximately, right in this area of Whitefish Bay," said Bruce Lynn. "If we ...

M I L W A U K E E, Jan. 2 -- Like tourists in an underwater museum, diversin the Great Lakes explore shipwrecks searching for remnants ofclothes, containers of food or even floating human remains.

TOLEDO, Ohio — The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes history, but it's just one of hundreds of vessels lost to these waters. For researchers, ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.

Winter storms on the Great Lakes have a habit of briefly giving things back — from exposed reefs and forgotten shorelines to shipwrecks that have sat underwater for more than a century. Over multiple ...

Fifty years ago this month, the gales of November swallowed the SS Edmund Fitzgerald along with her crew of 29 men, one of the largest ships to go down on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Remembered ...

Winter storms on the Great Lakes have a habit of briefly giving things back. Here's how winter weather plays a part.