According to data compiled by Baillod and other Great Lakes maritime historians, Lake Michigan accounted for 26.5% of all shipwrecks, closely followed by Lake Huron at 26.1% and Lake Erie at 23.8%.
“And you can’t bank on the Great Lakes being happy and peaceful this time of year,” Lusardi said So, what more is there to know about the gales of November ? What lake has the most shipwrecks?
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located about an hour north of the Mackinac Bridge or an hour and half west from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and only 20 minutes from Tahquamenon Falls State Park.
The educated guess is, that about 6,000 shipwrecks litter the bottom of our Great Lakes. Each one’s story can help us learn from Michigan’s past. But what if one could help change the future?
Most of the imaging taken of the Great Lakes is decades old and low resolution. It does not show the pipelines, cables, shipwrecks and boulders that new technologies make visible. Updated ...