A “Glad you made it!” sign greeted us in Paradise, Michigan as we entered this charming rural town located in the eastern part of Lake Superior. Near Sault Ste Marie, it is truly a paradise for shipwreck diving with intact freighters, steam ships and schooners lying at both recreational and technical diving depths. Read more…
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Shipwreck Explorers team of divers examines, surveys, and documents the shipwreck A.A. Parker in Lake Superior just north of Grand Marais, MI. This missing steamship was discovered by the team of explorers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum earlier. See the TV show…
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There are about 2,500 shipwrecks beneath the waves of Lake Michigan, and about 1,000 of them are still missing. The great lakes of the 1900s were the freeway system of that era. Now only a handful of groups are committed to discovering those wrecks, and solving the mysteries of what caused them to disappear. Read […]
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The discovery of a human skull in the depths of Lake Superior begins a story that will take historian and author Brendon Baillod across two Great Lakes and a century of history. It takes him and a team of elite technical divers more than 20 miles off Milwaukee where they discover the wreck of one […]
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Nearly twenty miles off Milwaukee, a team of divers descends 300 feet into the darkness. The faint outline of a giant ship resting on its side rises out of the dark like a ghost —the L.R. Doty is frozen in time underneath the gentle waves. Read more…
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