Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur between mid-October and mid-December, when storm tracks collide over the ...

Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur between mid-October and mid-December, when storm tracks collide over the Great Lakes ... for roughly half of the shipwrecks.

It's been a frigid start to winter this year across the Great Lakes region, with below-zero wind chills and multiple ...

So I prayed," said Hale. The 729-foot-long Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior in 1975, taking with it its 29-member crew, according to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The disaster spurred ...

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.

Only 15% of the lakebed has been documented to modern standards, making it difficult to predict how floods, storms and ...

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?

“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?

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%.