The Soo Locks in northern Michigan reopened March 21, kicking off the Great Lakes shipping season.

Less than one week into the shipping season – the Soo Locks opened on March 21 – the Boat Nerd map shows dozens of freighters ...

Though some individual researchers place the number much higher, the official estimate is that slightly more than 6,000 ships lie on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Roughly half of them fell ...

The shipwreck, broken in two, was discovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society using sonar technology. A historic all-steel ship that broke records as it cruised the Great Lakes but ...

In its day, the Western Reserve was an engineering marvel. At 318 feet long, it was one of the first ships on the Great Lakes made entirely of steel. It was built for speed—earning the nickname ...