Finding a sunken ship in the vast Lake Superior, 800 feet down, is not easy. Identifying it can be even harder.
Tag: Lake Superior
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Search for a Century-Old Shipwreck Turns Up One Even Older
Researchers and a television crew were looking for two naval ships lost in Lake Superior a century ago. Instead, they found a tugboat that mysteriously sank in 1879.
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Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Was An Unlikely Hit
Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 folk ballad told the true story of a shipwreck on Lake Superior. One of his old friends called it “a documentarian’s song.”
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A Century-Old Mystery Surfaces From Lake Superior
A lumber fleet left the docks of Baraga, Mich., in 1914, and was never seen again. A team of shipwreck hunters found two of its vessels more than 100 years later.
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Great Lakes Storm Brings Snowfall and Possible 20-Foot Waves
Michigan saw up to a foot of snow in some areas, and Wisconsin was getting up to six inches from the storm.