A World War II-era steamship that sank along with its captain in a strong storm in 1940 has been found at the bottom of Lake Superior after a 10-year search. The 244-foot SS Arlington was lying under ...

Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up. Now, 40 years ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Shipwrecks are preserved better in the Great Lakes than any other place in the world. The cold, fresh water acts to stop the clock on wrecks, making for excellent scuba ...

Robotic laboratories on the bottom of Lake Erie have revealed that the muddy sediments there release nearly as much of the nutrient phosphorus into the surrounding waters as enters the lake's central ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton’s fate seems particularly cruel. The 191 ...

MIDDLEBURY — Scientists at Middlebury College unveiled a three-dimensional map of Lake Champlain's bottom Thursday, culminating nearly a decade of work that not only discovered more than 70 previously ...

We’ve talked about how warm the surface water is on the Great Lakes this summer. You might be really surprised how cold the water is at the bottom of the Great Lakes. The water temperature at the ...

Stories about a bottomless Lake Tahoe and sunken ships filled with gold are common tales that have been told hereabouts for many decades. Although considered mostly fables, the ultimate truth to many ...

MADISON, Wis. — Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up.

Scientists have been observing an interesting “lake” at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico for years because it seems to be a very toxic place for sea life to dwell. Many who find their way inside of ...

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