Featured Articles About Shipwrecks
Edmund Fitzgerald 2021: Attend a shipwreck memorial service in person or virtually
All around the region this week, events are focused on honoring the lives lost on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and other Great Lakes ships. Many of these shipwreck services and ceremonies will be streamed live online.
Rogers City museum inducts Lake Huron shipwreck victims, honors lives
The ship broke up in a storm on Lake Huron in late November of 1966 before it could reach the protection of Thunder Bay, killing 28 of the 29 men aboard. Until recently, photos and biographies of only six of the ship’s crew hung on the museum’s walls.
Service held for last survivor of ’58 Great Lakes shipwreck
A memorial Mass has been held in northern Michigan for the last remaining survivor of a Lake Michigan shipwreck that killed 33 people in 1958.
Comments Requested: Lake Ontario marine sanctuary proposal moves forward
NOAA announced a public comment period on the draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Lake Ontario marine sanctuary, including feedback on what areas the sanctuary should include.
NOAA to designate Wisconsin coastline as national sanctuary
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has published the final rule designating the sanctuary.
BEN is back! Autonomous vessel launches into Lake Huron from Rogers City, Michigan
From coast to coast in the U.S., to American Samoa, and back to Lake Huron, the autonomous surface vessel is in Rogers City this month for lake floor mapping.
Marine archaeology research crew up from University of Texas
A trio of researchers who have been studying the Alpena-Amberley Ridge in Lake Huron are joined this month by a group of undergraduate students from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Shifting sand, water again reveal shipwreck from 1880s
A change in Lake Michigan water levels has revealed the shipwreck from the 1880s that is visible in western Michigan for the first time since 2018.
Watch Party: Ships and Shipwrecks
Come aboard a boat that delivers mail to ships on the Great Lakes, learn about life on a Great Lakes…
COVID-19 pushed people outdoors. Michigan’s ski industry is ready for them.
Recreational activity skyrocketed in Michigan through spring and summer. Now the state’s snowsports businesses hope they’ll get a similar burst of sales.
The Age of Nature: Series finale ends with hope
As “The Age of Nature” documentary concludes its national airings on PBS stations, we find more hope globally and in the Great Lakes region.
What Grows: “Shipwrecks and Ecosystems” watch party for Great Lakes Now and “The Age of Nature”
Whether they’re in oceans or the Great Lakes, shipwrecks create unique ecosystems for a variety of aquatic life.
The Age of Nature: Humanity’s relationship with nature in the Great Lakes region and beyond
What are the modern issues affecting nature and what are humans doing about them?
What Grows: Shipwrecks become ecosystems, even at nuclear testing sites
“The Age of Nature” producer Pete Lown spoke with Great Lakes Now about the powerful symbolism of marine life returning to the wrecks in advance of the documentary airing.
Shipwreck Life: How fish and other aquatic species utilize Great Lakes shipwrecks
From bass and burbot to freshwater sponge, the kind of ecosystem that forms around Great Lakes shipwrecks are as varied as the thousands of wrecks.
One Old, One New: Teen project finds meteorite fragments in Lake Michigan
In a live update, students and researchers shared two major finds from The Aquarius Project’s years-long attempt to find the meteorite.
Watch Party: Recoveries
Great Lakes Now Program Director Sandra Svoboda chats with John Russick from the Chicago History Museum, and GLN Producers Kathy Johnson and Nick Austin. They answer some audience questions about the show.
Eastland Documentary: Filmmakers talk behind-the-scenes journey and stories
Learn more about the tragedy and what inspired the filmmakers to tell the story of the Eastland.
Chicago’s Eastland Disaster: Explore this Great Lakes tragedy with a Storymap
Navigate through this digital feature to learn more about this steamship and its tragic story.
Recoveries – Episode 1017
Learn more about a little-known Chicago shipwreck that took more lives than the Titanic. Check in on the Kalamazoo River’s wildlife 10 years after the Line 6B pipeline spilled over a million gallons of oil there, and find out if COVID-19 means no basketball tournament in 2020 for four Great Lakes island schools.
Despite virus, Michigan groups aim to keep summer fireworks tradition
The Alpena Municipal Council is giving people time to raise money for a July 4 fireworks show along Lake Huron.
Shipwreck fragment emerges along Lake Michigan beach
The fragment was revealed by waves amid high water levels on the Great Lakes.