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Great Lakes water levels surge, some record highs predicted

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Federal officials predict water levels will surge to record highs in some areas of the Great Lakes over the next six months.  Read more… By JOHN […]

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Cold snap has Great Lakes icing up fast, grinding freighters to a halt

The Great Lakes cumulatively went from 3.3% to 9.4% ice covered in just five days, from Dec. 22 through Wednesday, with continued cold temperatures expected to keep that number rising […]

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Fighting against 40-footers, Frank Mays recalls surviving the sinking of the Carl D. Bradley

This is a very interesting interview with Frank Mays, now 85 years young, telling the story of his survival this day in 1958 as the big freighter Carl D. Bradley […]

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Diver shares what it’s like to photograph Great Lakes shipwrecks

Listen to Becky Kagan Schott as she describes her passion for diving and documenting shipwrecks in the Great Lakes from the time she first dived several shipwrecks 23 years ago […]

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MYSTERY SOLVED | ‘S.S. Clifton’ discovered in Lake Huron

It’s been a long search.  Trotter has spent at least 30 year searching for the S.S. Clifton but it alluded him and other shipwreck hunters.  In the 40 years of […]

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